Will Facebook’s Recent Announcement of Changes to News Feed Affect Legal Immunities for User Content?

Facebook recently announced that it would make changes to its news feed to prioritize content that users share and discuss and material from “reputable publishers.”  These changes are part of what Mark Zuckerberg says is a refocusing of Facebook from “helping [users] find relevant content to helping [users] have more meaningful social interactions.”  This refocus highlights the tensions between Facebook’s conflicting roles as a social media platform on one hand, and, in effect, a distributor of third party content on the other.  We have discussed this issue in previous posts. As Facebook implements these newly-announced changes in the way third party content will be presented — focusing on “trusted content” — the operational  models powering Facebook’s use of third party content (user generated and otherwise) will also evolve.  Lawyers should keep an eye on what the changes might mean for…

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