{"id":108859,"date":"2017-10-14T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T03:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=108859"},"modified":"2017-10-14T09:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T03:57:15","slug":"fb-no-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/fb-no-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Fb has no journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As people debate Facebook`s role in influencing people during the US presidential elections by Russian ads and fake news on the platform, the company`s COO Sheryl Sandberg has stressed that the social media giant is not a media organisation, and therefore does not hire journalists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sandberg said that Facebook is run by technical workers and engineers and according to her, the company does not produce news content, therefore it can`t be a media company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108860 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6360035277177830871761195558_Sheryl-Sandberg-Facebook-COO.jpg\" alt=\"Fb has no journalists\" width=\"645\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with US-based news website Axios on Thursday, she said, &#8220;At our heart, we are a tech company. We hire engineers. We don`t hire reporters. No one is a journalist.&#8221; &#8220;We don`t cover the news.she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As people debate Facebook`s role in influencing people during the US presidential elections by Russian ads and fake news on the platform, the company`s COO Sheryl Sandberg has stressed that the social media giant is not a media organisation, and therefore does not hire journalists. Sandberg said that Facebook is run by technical workers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[15365,7958,55540,3049,71,55541,55542,586,55543,13893],"class_list":["post-108859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-debate","tag-facebook","tag-fb-has-no-journalists","tag-journalists","tag-people","tag-russian-ads","tag-sheryl-sandberg","tag-social-media","tag-technical-workers","tag-us-presidential-elections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/facebook-app-sensor-tower-e1471977216684.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}