Facebook’s two question survey isn’t as dumb as it sounds

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by Sindy Cator on January 25, 2018 at 7:46 pm

Buzzfeed revealed earlier this week Facebook’s latest solution to the problem of trustworthy news was a user survey comprised of two questions: “Do you recognize the following websites” and “How much do you trust each of these domains?” At first, this sounds too simplistic — but think about it for longer than it takes to take the survey, and it looks more useful than it sounds at first. Mark Zuckerberg last week announced that Facebook would prioritize news sources by trustworthiness, and that the question of who to trust would be in the hands of the users: We could try…