Facebook’s Signal could be disruptive (in a good way, of course), as it opens up the door to journalists and media outlets to have a number of tools and services that will allow them to locate and distribute their content. It also works with photos and videos posted to Instagram. Access is granted to anyone who requests it. However, it is now only available to people based in the United States.

Facebook has long had relationships with media organizations.

Andy Mitchell, director of media partnership in the company, revealed the latest tool in a blog post. Twitter has always been populated by journalists who seek and spread news right there; Apple is calling for publishing houses to offer content via its news platform; Google has been the one way you search for news for decades – and now Facebook is really getting into the news and content arena as well. He states that media companies had been pushing for ways to better utilize the social network for news reporting purposes.

“Signal” is simply the newest of Facebook’s efforts to intertwine itself with the journalist and media publications which have discovered success attracting an enormous viewers by way of the social community.

Since Signal is being introduced on both Facebook and Instagram, using location-tag and topic-related search functionality, journalists can search Instagram for public posts related to specific hashtags, associated with specific public accounts, or tagged with locations using an interactive global map. For enabling reporters to do all this, and pull reporters away from Twitter, Inc (NYSE:TWTR), it has created a free news-gathering tool called Signal. In the future, their stories might be published on Facebook, thanks to Instant Articles and its followers. This release follows the Facebook decision of opening up the “Mentions” app for journalists with verified profiles.

That app, which lets users track mentions of themselves and stream live video, was previously only for public figures like athletes and actors.

The two Internet giants recently upgraded their news platform to make it easier and quicker for users to read a full article directly on the social network.

For all of Twitter’s considerable issues, the ability to have their content used and shared on other sites isn’t one of them, and Facebook want’s a bigger slice of that pie.