This Is Facebook's News Survey

Last week, Facebook said its News Feed would prioritize links from publications its users found "trustworthy."

The company is overhauling News Feed amid ongoing criticism of its platform, which has come under fire for enabling foreign manipulation of US elections, giving rise fake news, and making people feel bad.

Facebook plans to determine whether or not a publication is trustworthy via a survey — an idea that itself was met with harsh criticism and questions. Top among them is whether it's wise for Facebook to entrust decisions on news trustworthiness to a user base that has already widely spread fake news and content created by a Kremlin-linked troll farm.

Here is Facebook's survey in its entirety:

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed this is the only version of the survey company is using, and that Facebook wrote the questions itself.

In a Facebook post last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained how the survey data would be used:

Here's how this will work. As part of our ongoing quality surveys, we will now ask people whether they're familiar with a news source and, if so, whether they trust that source. The idea is that some news organizations are only trusted by their readers or watchers, and others are broadly trusted across society even by those who don't follow them directly. (We eliminate from the sample those who aren't familiar with a source, so the output is a ratio of those who trust the source to those who are familiar with it.) This update will not change the amount of news you see on Facebook. It will only shift the balance of news you see towards sources that are determined to be trusted by the community.

The survey contains two short, simple questions. But the responses from Facebook's users will matter greatly for the many publications relying on Facebook traffic to help sustain their businesses.