Facebook ought to accomplish more to handle the spread of "destructive" fake news, and help finance unique news-casting, newsreader Jon Snow has said.
The columnist, who has introduced Channel 4 News since 1989, gave the MacTaggart Lecture at the yearly Edinburgh TV celebration.
He said Facebook's inaction was a "risk to vote based system".
Facebook's author Mark Zuckerberg says the organization is "testing" with approaches to help the news business.
'Moral obligation'
In a 50-minute discourse, Mr Snow said Facebook had helped Channel 4 News locate a more extensive gathering of people for its reports, however left distributers helpless before the informal community."Facebook's standards are from time to time clarified in detail and can change overnight at Mr Zuckerberg's impulse," said Mr Snow.
He likewise reprimanded the organization's notoriety for enabling false stories to spread unchallenged.
"Facebook empowered the story, 'Pope embraces Trump for President'," he said.
"That drew in more than a million people amid the US races. That same calculation that organized many astonishing reports of our own, likewise organized fakery on a gigantic scale.
"Facebook has an ethical obligation to organize veracity over virality. It is central to our popular government."
PAMr Snow additionally said Facebook had paid news distributers an "ostensible rate" for their stories, which was insufficient to help honest, investigative news-casting.
"Facebook devours our items and pays everything except nothing for them. This can't last," he told the group of onlookers.
Channel 4 has posted a transcript of the full address.
Criticism
On Wednesday evening, Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook was investigating better approaches to help columnists.
In a post on his Facebook profile, he stated: "As more individuals get a greater amount of their news from places like Facebook, we have an obligation to make an educated group and help construct basic comprehension."
He said the informal community was trying an approach to make it simpler for individuals to subscribe to distributers they preferred, and Facebook would not take a cut of the membership cash.
He additionally portrayed changes to enable individuals to check the validness of articles.
"In the end, we will probably put a distributer's logo by each news article on Facebook so everybody can see more about what they're understanding," he composed.
"Giving individuals a voice is insufficient without having associations devoted to revealing new data and investigating it. We will continue exploring different avenues regarding distinctive approaches to help the news business and ensure journalists and distributers wherever can continue doing their imperative work."
The post was not an immediate reaction to Mr Snow's discourse.
"I'm a devotee of Facebook," Mr Snow said in his address.
"It's awesome, it's marvelous - however I'm not an aficionado of playing reckless with the items that we in this room create at incredible cost.
"It can't be past the limits of human comprehension to think of a method for guaranteeing that these uber elements need to pay to play."
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