<p class="title">Facebook on Tuesday confirmed plans for a News Tab that will be edited by seasoned journalists, in a departure from its longstanding practice of letting algorithms dictate a user's experience.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A human team will select relevant, reliable breaking and top news stories.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other sections of the tab will rely on algorithms to figure out a user's interests based on "signals" such as pages followed, interactions with online news or subscriptions to publications.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Our goal with the News Tab is to provide a personalized, highly relevant experience for people," Facebook head of news partnerships Campbell Brown told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"For the Top News section of the tab we're pulling together a small team of journalists to ensure we're highlighting the right stories."</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, the majority of stories people see will be determined by software, according to Brown.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tab would be separate from the trademark news feed at Facebook that displays updates and content from people's friends.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Facebook Watch already allows users to peruse news shows funded by the social network and other on-demand online content.</p>.<p class="bodytext">California-based Facebook has launched an array of initiatives to support or bolster journalism in recent years as social media has been under intense pressure to avoid becoming a tool to spread misinformation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Working with news industry to get Facebook's News Tab right is our goal and focus this year," Brown said earlier this month in a tweet.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Still early days but we are getting tremendous partner feedback on the product. I believe we can provide people on Facebook a better news experience."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Facebook will reportedly pay some publishers to license news content for the tab.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier this year Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he wanted "to make sure that to the extent that we can, we're funding as much high-quality journalism as possible."</p>
<p class="title">Facebook on Tuesday confirmed plans for a News Tab that will be edited by seasoned journalists, in a departure from its longstanding practice of letting algorithms dictate a user's experience.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A human team will select relevant, reliable breaking and top news stories.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other sections of the tab will rely on algorithms to figure out a user's interests based on "signals" such as pages followed, interactions with online news or subscriptions to publications.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Our goal with the News Tab is to provide a personalized, highly relevant experience for people," Facebook head of news partnerships Campbell Brown told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"For the Top News section of the tab we're pulling together a small team of journalists to ensure we're highlighting the right stories."</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, the majority of stories people see will be determined by software, according to Brown.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tab would be separate from the trademark news feed at Facebook that displays updates and content from people's friends.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Facebook Watch already allows users to peruse news shows funded by the social network and other on-demand online content.</p>.<p class="bodytext">California-based Facebook has launched an array of initiatives to support or bolster journalism in recent years as social media has been under intense pressure to avoid becoming a tool to spread misinformation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Working with news industry to get Facebook's News Tab right is our goal and focus this year," Brown said earlier this month in a tweet.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Still early days but we are getting tremendous partner feedback on the product. I believe we can provide people on Facebook a better news experience."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Facebook will reportedly pay some publishers to license news content for the tab.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier this year Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he wanted "to make sure that to the extent that we can, we're funding as much high-quality journalism as possible."</p>