Is Facebook's News Curation Project Fail?

Facebook tried a news curation project back in 20 16, where they contracted these 25 journalists to kind of promote news in this a trending news a feature that's long been scrapped. The reason why most projects fail, and possibly this one, is because they are, at the very end, driven by engagement. And when you solve for engagement, that's when you start to get salacious stories, clickbat headlines, very inflammatory stories. If it's not salacious or gossipy or or click baty, it can't get the engagement. It doesn't really factor into the augr them at all. Because we don't have any ads on our platform, it's a very low