Facebook announces “FB Newswire” to help steal journalists from Twitter
By DAVID HOLMES
There’s an old aphorism that says, “Twitter is where news breaks, Facebook is where news goes.” The implication is that, for a truly real-time newsgathering experience there’s no substitute for the immersive, instantaneous nature of Twitter.
The problem we’ve seen with Twitter, however, is that it’s too fast. During breaking news events, like Hurricane Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing, Twitter often becomes a stage for false, unverified information. And while these falsehoods are often corrected just as quickly, thousands of retweets later it’s too late.
That’s only one of the reasons FB Newswire, Facebook’s just-announced partnership with Storyful, is so compelling. If you’ve never heard of Storyful (or, like many, get it confused with Storify) it’s a tool for discovering and, more importantly, verifying newsworthy social media content. (You can read more about Storyful’s verification process here). Under the new partnership, these presumably-authenticated on-the-ground reports, photos, and videos will then be collected on the FB Newswire Facebook page.
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