The New York Times (NYT) CEO, Mark Thompson, has accused Facebook of playing into the hands of "enemies of high-quality journalism". (She shot back that the Times didn’t want to be transparent itself.) In a letter to employees, Thompson said that Facebook's decision to censor posts from users who are not verified was "a clear violation of our rules". The NYT and other publishers have stopped spending on Facebook to prevent their articles being deemed political, amid concerns the policy will conflate journalism with traditional political advertising.
The New York Times (NYT) CEO, Mark Thompson, has accused Facebook of playing into the hands of "enemies of high-quality journalism". In a letter to employees, Thompson said that Facebook's decision to censor posts from users who are not verified was "a clear violation of our rules". The NYT and other publishers have stopped spending on Facebook to prevent their articles being deemed political, amid concerns the policy will conflate journalism with traditional political advertising.