[whowalrus]

While I agree that its an extremely complicated problem to solve, I would be more inclined to believe they are trying to solve it if they took responsibility for (at least some of) them, instead of saying:

"We don’t favor specific kinds of sources — or ideas. Our aim is to deliver the types of stories we’ve gotten feedback that an individual person most wants to see."

Of course they could be working behind closed doors, while PR spins its yarn, in which case I wish them best of luck. It would be interesting to see how they solve it.

[grzm]

I understand the desire to have Facebook and others take a stronger or more explicit statement of intent or purpose. That said, no matter what they say, some are going to call them out as being disingenuous, that it's just PR. At this point I'm just interested in specifics of what they're going to do.