Mark Zuckerberg: ‘We Really Value Journalism’ at Facebook

‘Because of the values of our company, we really value journalism’

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ZUCKERBERG: “The thing that’s been really challenging that has made this take longer than I think either of us would have wanted is that we’ve had this funny dynamic in our community, you know, where people come to Facebook and our services because it’s a social network, they want to stay connected with their friends and family and communities and we get consistent feedback from the vast majority of people on our services that they want to see more content from friends and family and less other stuff. So it’s created this all dynamic where on the one hand, you know, we personally and because of the values of our company, we really value journalism. Certainly we have had a lot of conversations with folks who pushed us quite hard to kind of show more of the content and to enter into relationships where we can fund more of the content creation. But it’s just this kind of odd dilemma where, while we’ve wanted to do that, we were just getting consistent feedback from our community that they generally want see more from friends and family and less of other stuff.”

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