Facebook News Adds Local News and Video

Facebook News, the social network’s dedicated section devoted to journalism, is today launching for all users in the U.S (on mobile, desktop will launch soon). The feature was first introduced in October 2019 as a limited test in the U.S. In addition to the nationwide launch, Facebook has also added local news to its News section.

Users can react and share articles, but not comment. Users are also able to hide articles, topics and publishers they don’t want to see.

To qualify for inclusion in Facebook News, publishers will have to serve a sufficiently large audience and abide by integrity standards. Facebook doesn’t detail exactly how it makes determinations around integrity but says it looks at signals such as misinformation as identified by third-party fact-checkers, clickbait, engagement bait or use of scraped content, for example.