Facebook to come up with new section by end of 2019

As a solution to fake news or yellow journalism, Facebook will be launching a new section for "high quality" and "trustworthy" news, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said earlier this week. Reportedly, it is also known from a person familiar with the conversation that executives have discussed possibly launching it by the end of 2019.

The new section will be developed on the same lines of existing "Watch" tab, a section on the platform that hosts videos and original programming. It would be separate from the general News Feed section which allows people to browse on the site. 

"Because that has started to grow really quickly, and that's a lot of video that now people use through our services, we've decided that there really is an opportunity to do something like that with news as well," Zuckerberg said in the discussion with Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of news publisher Axel Springer. 

"So, of course anything that we do is going to be personalized, but there's a question I have, which is, what is the right level of curation that we should have in order to — we're not going to have journalists making news — but I think what we want to do is make sure that this is a product that can get people high quality news, right?" he added. 

However, according to reports in CNN, Facebook might not be hiring journalist to make original content for the site, but it is known that a small team of journalist will be made to curate the news in new section. 

Regarding the new feature, Zuckerberg focused on three major points. One, he wants to build the product in a "consultive way" in which "experts in the field" have the opportunity to provide feedback as well. Two, improvement of monetization part for publishers from News Feed. And third, build an "online ecosystem" in which "new types of journalism can thrive."