Meta announced Friday it will integrate content from major news organizations into its artificial intelligence assistant to provide Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users with real-time information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The social media giant said Meta AI will offer breaking news, entertainment and lifestyle stories when users ask news-related questions, drawing from partnerships with outlets including CNN, Fox News, Le Monde, People and USA Today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The feature will allow users to access \u201cmore diverse content sources\u201d and receive links to partner websites to dive deeper into stories, Meta said in a blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meta said the expansion aims to make its AI assistant \u201cmore responsive, accurate, and balanced\u201d by incorporating diverse viewpoints, acknowledging that \u201creal-time events can be challenging for current AI systems to keep up with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The initial partnerships span mainstream and conservative-leaning publications, including The Daily Caller and The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company said it plans to continue adding partnerships and develop new features as competition intensifies among technology firms to enhance the capabilities of their AI assistants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meta AI is available across the company\u2019s platforms, serving billions of users globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The announcement comes as artificial intelligence companies, including ChatGPT and Google\u2019s Gemini, increasingly move to incorporate live web content and news feeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meta has had a hot and cold relationship with the news media over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 declared that news was a very small share of user engagement on the company\u2019s platforms and began shutting down the Facebook News tab in markets like the United States, Britain and France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This also saw the end of multi-million dollar deals with leading news organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zuckerberg also made the surprise decision in January to axe Meta\u2019s US fact-checking program, as he more closely aligned with the Trump administration\u2019s antipathy to establishment news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That scheme had employed third-party fact checkers, many from news media organizations such as AFP, to expose misinformation disseminated on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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