New Promise Cbc Journalists Cannot Add Together Intelligence Sources Equally Facebook Friends

CBC is in all likelihood the origin media companionship who has framed a formal "Facebook Policy" for their employees.

The policy says that CBC journalist should avoid adding sources or contacts every 2d "Facebook friends" (the mutual tendency is that when journalists interview someone, they oftentimes connect amongst each other on LinkedIn or Facebook subsequently the conversation.)

Here's the argue stated inward the CBC Facebook policy document:

"It may compromise your run past times letting friends run into other friends on your network," the policy document says. "It may besides non endure inward your involvement to position yourself every 2d a 'friend' of a source on their network."

"In the context of basic reporting, y'all practise non desire 1 source to 'see' what simply about other source says, nor practise y'all desire your mortal 'conversation' amongst a source becoming public. Adding sources every 2d 'friends' makes the administration of this much trickier."