The Guardian’s Katharine Viner hits out at Facebook and the blurring of real news and fake news

February 23, 2017 1:34

The editor of the second largest English language news site in the world, the Guardian’s Katharine Viner, has hit out at Facebook creator Mark Zuckerburg, saying he doesn’t care about content.

Lenore Taylor, Katharine Viner and Mark Colvin at last night’s event

Speaking at last night’s Guardian Live event, the editor-in-chief implied the social media site is careless about content, blurring the lines between the truth and fake news.

“I’m not sure how crucial news organisations are to him (Mark Zuckerberg). To him it’s just about content, it’s not about good, factual content, true content, it’s just content,” she said.

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Abigail Dawson

Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.