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Botworx.ai and Zee Media launch news chatbots for Facebook

ZEE NEWS CHATBOT ON FB MESSENGER

Zee Media is the latest media organization to try out pushing content over chatbots. Botworx.ai announced an agreement with Zee Media on Thursday to create AI-powered chatbots for Zee News, WION and DNA. The chatbots will be integrated into Facebook, Messenger and Facebook Live for video. Note that international publishers like CNN, Guardian and Huffington Post also have chatbots on Facebook messenger that operate in a similar manner. Some like Huffington Post send selected stories out for their subscribers to read. Others like Guardian are fully interactive, responding to queries with relevant news articles and clips. How to Subscribe?  Users can log into the Facebook Messenger app on there phone and click on the icon on the bottom right for automated messaging. From here users can search for Zee News, DNA or WION. Once the user clicks on the search result he/she will be directed to tap the 'Get Started' button, which allows the bot to view the user's public profile on Facebook. First Impressions The process to setup the chatbot is quick and painless. Interactions happen within the Messenger app so the user interface is simple to follow. The chatbot itself is fairly basic and doesn't seem to understand any conversational inputs or even simple searches. But it does throw up a simple list of categories that can be tapped to show the top trending stories from said topic. The Zee News and WION chatbot allow you to stream live telecasts of the channel from within the app, but…

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