{"id":29567,"date":"2024-03-01T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/facebook-will-remove-its-news-tab-and-stop-paying-publishers-for-news\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:14:20","slug":"facebook-will-remove-its-news-tab-and-stop-paying-publishers-for-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/facebook-will-remove-its-news-tab-and-stop-paying-publishers-for-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook will remove its News tab, and stop paying publishers for news"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facebook\u2019s News tab launched in 2019 with millions of dollars in content deals for publishers (a reported $10 million for the Wall Street Journal,<\/em> $20 million for the New York Times<\/em>, and $3 million for CNN), but in April it\u2019s going away for good. Meta says it will \u201cdeprecate\u201d Facebook News in the US and Australia in April 2024, it won\u2019t enter new commercial deals for news, and it \u201cwill not offer new Facebook products specifically for news publishers in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Facebook News, located in the News tab, is no longer available in The United Kingdom, France and Germany. Starting in early April, it will no longer be available in the United States and Australia. Learn more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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This isn\u2019t Facebook\u2019s first retreat from news \u2014 remember Instant Articles? \u2014 and the writing has been on the wall. In 2022 it shifted focus from news to the Creator economy, and former head of news partnerships Campbell Brown left the company last October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But when it introduced Facebook News in 2019, the company said, \u201cWe hope this work aids in our effort to sustain great journalism and strengthen democracy,\u201d and that a survey \u201cfound that we were under-serving many topics people wanted most in their News Feeds, especially around categories like entertainment, health, business and sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now, Meta has a different message, reiterating a claim that \u201cnews makes up less than 3 percent of what people around the world see in their Facebook feed, and is a small part of the Facebook experience for the vast majority of people.\u201d Instead of paying publishers, Meta will \u201chave to focus our time and resources on things people tell us they want to see more of on the platform, including short form video.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It went on to invite publishers to keep posting links on their own pages, using products like Reels and ads to drive people to their own websites, away from Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The end of Facebook\u2019s licensing deals is old news here in the US, where it dropped the deals two years ago, but in Australia, it removes the $70 million per year it was paying to outlets like Sky News Australia, News Corp, Seven, Nine, and The Guardian<\/em>. Those three-year deals were made after Australia\u2019s government passed the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, and they\u2019re about to run out. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 2021 power struggle ended after Australia amended its law and included Facebook temporarily applying a news ban that took down pages for government organizations and nonprofits. Facebook and Instagram blocked news in Canada last year over a similar law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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