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by mtberatwork 3690 days ago
Google News claims to be entirely machine run without human intervention.

"The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program." [1]

[1] https://news.google.com/

3 comments

I would guess Google News uses fewer and more trusted sources, such as the homepage of well-known news websites.

I doubt Facebook marketers have the same kind of standards.

Google News source selection is pretty broad and I don't think that the sources are selected by humans...
The thing is that that computer program gets tweaked, and tweaked, and tweaked again. See for example Google Panda update.
Sources and deselection may be otherwise, and the statement doesn't exclude the possibility.