[negzero7]

Why wouldn't Breitbart be on Facebook News? Just about every news site these days is full of strong bias and misinformation - none are objective. They've made it hard to justify why we should listen to any of them.

Just take a look at the NBC scandal with Matt Lauer, or the fake Syrian war footage ABC was spreading around that turned out to be a shooting range in Kentucky. Not to mention the Project Veritas releases concerning CNN and others.

Trust is low with all news organizations and I think The Verge is just continuing to push their own bias onto users with this article.

*edit - I see downvotes but no comments. I'd love to have my mind changed if someone has good reasons other than they don't like right wing media.

[syockit]

NewsGuard gave Breitbart green rating this year, citing that it regularly issues corrections. Facebook's choice of news sources probably works on the same guidelines.

Of course, the good sources are the ones that do not publish errors or misinformation at all in the first place. But if that is used as the criteria, then most of the mainstream media would not even be legitimate candidate.

[pnutjam]

Downvoted and commented. ----- Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. Jean Paul-Sartre