More recently, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has faced criticism for Facebook's policy of allowing political ads with false information to run on the site. The company has been working on the Facebook News project for months. It could pay millions of dollars to news publications for licensing fees to run their stories on Facebook, according to The Wall Street Journal. For subscription-based publications, users will be able to read stories syndicated on Facebook for free but will have to pay if they click through to other stories, according to a Vox report. The company is launching the project at a public event in New York on Friday, with News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson sharing the stage with Zuckerberg. Thomson and News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch have called for online giants like Facebook and Google to pay for news content, similar to how cable TV providers pay networks for the right to broadcast their programming.