Facebook is in search of a media industry big gun (with more than 20 years of experience) to lead its global news partnerships team.
But what exactly will the major role entail? A closer look at the job post on Facebook’s careers section (as spotted by Mashable) offers a summary of the responsibilities the position will involve.
According to the listing, Facebook’s head of news partnerships will serve “as the company’s leading representative with news organizations worldwide.” The company’s global news partnerships team, which includes former BBC journalist Patrick Walker and former New York Times reporter Nick Grudin (among others), will report to this individual.
“The goal of the news partnerships team is to help publishers and journalists understand how to reach and engage their audiences, and to innovate with new technologies,” claims Facebook.
In terms of existing projects the new exec could be charged with overseeing, the two initiatives that immediately stand out are Facebook’s fake content update and its Snapchat-esque content curation tool, dubbed “Collections.” It is becoming increasingly clear that the former is a product management issue, which Facebook aims to tackle using a News Feed algorithm that can automate the process of targeting unreliable — or spam — content. However, as Facebook has indicated in the past, it will seek the input of journalists (and third-party fact-checking organizations) in building the software. The new exec will therefore likely act as a go-between, with the goal of soliciting and incorporating “feedback from news organizations on product development,” claims Facebook.
Meanwhile, Facebook’s rumored “Collections” tool (thought to be a Snapchat Discover clone) will require new content providers, and the expansion of existing partnerships with the company’s media partners — the likes of CNN, BuzzFeed, and The New York Times already produce content for Facebook Live and Instant Articles. Both ventures will rely on the strong ties the individual will have gained from his or her decadeslong tenure in the news reporting industry.
Facebook declined to comment on the new position. Other social media companies boast similar executive roles. For example, Peter Greenberger serves as global director of news at Twitter, and Peter Hamby as head of news at Snap.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?