Fruit of cooperation between Facebook and Storyful (News Corp) is the tool FB Newswire, which aims to make it easier for journalists and publishers to locate, share, and use content on the popular social network.
The two companies hope that FB Newswire will be an important tool for journalistic / informational organizations to use material coming up on Facebook from users and organizations around the world.
Storyful qualifies as a "social news agency" that identifies, crosses, acquires and distributes videos and generally user-generated content. Founded in Dublin, 2010 was purchased in December of 2013 by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. instead of 15 million dollars.
A special algorithm identifies issues of news coverage on Facebook, such as sports, entertainment, technology and politics. Then Storyful's journalist teams take control of their validity before they appear at FB Newswire.
The new service will feature topics from around the world - including material in languages other than English. For use of the service, a similar is enough on its Facebook page - and the topics will appear in the user's News Feed.
This particular move from Facebook seems to be aimed at strengthening its position in the field of direct news and breaking news, where Twitter is currently dominating.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
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