The article I chose to write about is Europe Isn’t Happy About Facebook’s News
Feed Experiment, which I found in Time Magazine. There were a few
sources I was able to track to authenticate this story. These sources are
Facebook themselves, Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, and The
Information Commissioner’s Office of Britain. Following the” Criteria to
Evaluate the Credibility of WWW Resources” each of these websites are legit.
The author who wrote this article is Mirren Gidda and she is a well-known
author for Time, as well as, other publications. As far as whether or
not the story regarding Facebook is current, I was able to find more articles
in the NY Times, USA Today, and CNN, all of which are credible sources. Each of
these stories came out within the last week or so.
The only way this story can be involved with
unrestricted web publishing is if bloggers or other writers decide to take it
out of context and spread false information. By adding opinions in with facts,
this article can potentially take a different turn than it was meant to.
Facebook is currently under investigation for this event in which some people
feel it violated the privacy act. If the public, which right now I consider
non-experts on the subject, decide to put their own spin on the story, it will
then become an unreliable piece of information. As of today, this information is legit and as long as it’s shared on social media through bona fide
sites, I think the impact will be fine.
Reference
Gidda, Mirren. 2014. Europe Isn’t Happy About Facebook’s News Feed Experiment. Retrieved
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Great credible stories can easily be turned into unreliable with the addition of user opinions on Facebook and other social media sites as you mentioned. It will be interesting to see how the current investigation on Facebook plays out.
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