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April 24, 2014 06:05 pm GMT

Facebook Launches a Newswire to Surface More Breaking News

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Facebook wants to be your digital newspaper, and it's not beating around the bush to make that happen

The social network launched FB Newswire on Thursday, a Facebook page of hand-selected and journalist-verified news stories from across Facebook's platform, according to Andy Mitchell, director of news and global media partnerships at Facebook.

See also: Facebook's News Feed: What Changed and Why

The key to FB Newswire is a partnership with Storyful, a news agency that aggregates news content shared on social networks. Storyful has three offices on different continents, including a team of journalists in each office that work to verify news as it is shared over social media, according to Aine Kerr, managing editor at Storyful Read more...

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