Facebook to Invest $300m in Supporting Local News
&gt; Last year, we worked to better understand what kind of news people want to see on Facebook.<p>This opening line is just all wrong. News isn&#x27;t about &#x27;what you want to see&#x27;, writing news to garner clicks is basically another way of saying &#x27;our news reporting is fundamentally biased&#x27;.<p>Real journalism isn&#x27;t entertainment. But, I get it, real journalism doesn&#x27;t sell, people don&#x27;t have time to understand world problems, don&#x27;t care much about corruption unless it&#x27;s dramatic, don&#x27;t care about plain boring facts.<p>Facebook understands that in order to own a market they have to spoon-feed it what it wants. Curate an audience of idle minds and feed them what they measurably want.<p>This play to &#x27;local news&#x27; is simply a tool to advance their own agenda, they want to own local news and help you feel that FB is all warm and &#x27;local&#x27; to your needs.<p>Your &#x27;local&#x27; world-view, sponsored by Facebook. It&#x27;s kind of sick really.