Facebook, Twitter Join Left-Wing News Orgs to ‘Improve the News’

Facebook and Twitter are tired of people using their social media platforms to spread what they believe is false information and low-quality news, so they’ve joined with a number of global news organizations to “improve” the quality of the news content they offer.

The project, called First Draft, is backed by Google and Google Labs, and will offer information on “best practices for journalism in the online age,” developed with a carefully curated group of partner sites.

Unsurprisingly, those “news sources,” on which Google, Facebook and Twitter are relying on to filter out supposedly dishonest or untrustworthy news content, are almost exclusively left-leaning. – READ MORE