Facebook has become the most powerful publisher in history by replacing editors with algorithms and has divided public debate in a way that challenges democracy, Katharine Viner, the editor-in-chief of the Guardian, has said. Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age,” Viner said in London on Thursday night. To be more meaningful and rebuild trust from historic lows, media organisations had to be more representative of societies they represented, and focus on facts, Viner said. Viner said the organisation wanted to collaborate with its readers to develop new ideas rather than just criticising “the status quo”. We cannot merely criticise the status quo; we must also explore the new ideas that might displace it.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2017 18:56 UTC