Paper, a standalone iOS news reader app it revealed today that delivers human and algorithm-curated full-screen articles and photos in categories you select like Tech, Travel, Sport.  It  is the first app out of Facebook Creative Labs, an initiative to let small teams within Facebook build standalone mobile experiences and fulfills Zuckerberg’s need for Facebook to become the future for news the modern age’s newspaper.

Paper’s main competitors are, other news reader apps like Flipboard, Prismatic, Circa, and Pulse. Each has its strengths as well as weaknesses. Flipboard has a large following and has magazines curated by other users of the app, while Prismatic relies solely on artificial intelligence to provide the most relevant articles. Given Facebook’s massive collection of 1.1billion peoples data on what they share could revolutionize news as we know it.
This app will allow people to also share your own stories and as a result it could get more people sharing news publically. Imagine the opportunity of being surfaced in Paper and accruing masses of likes and followers. Will this see people moving away from Twitter and back to Facebook?