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    Articles tagged Facebook (869)

    Sarah ScireMarch 14, 2024
    A window into Facebook closes as Meta sets a date to shut down CrowdTangle
    CrowdTangle will close August 14. Meta has argued the tool was used to generate inaccurate and incomplete reports about Facebook.
    Peter GresteMarch 4, 2024
    Facebook will stop subsidizing Australian news. Will tax dollars have to replace it?
    “If we accept that news is a public good, not something we can treat as a product to be traded like soap, then we have to develop economic models that somehow get the public to pay for it.”
    Gretel KahnNovember 8, 2023
    In Canada’s battle with Big Tech, smaller publishers are caught in the crossfire
    Independent outlets explain how traffic and engagement have plummeted overnight after Meta blocked news from its platforms.
    Luke Thorburn and Aviv OvadyaOctober 31, 2023
    Social media algorithms can be redesigned to bridge divides — here’s how
    “It falls to both the tech companies that built these systems and an engaged public to create technologies designed for social cohesion.”
    Meta threatens to remove news from Instagram and Facebook over proposed California law
    Laura Hazard OwenApril 21, 2023
    A history of BuzzFeed News, Part II: 2017–2023
    “We can’t keep losing money.”
    News now makes up less than 3% of what people see on Facebook
    Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 23, 2023
    Google blocks news in some Canadian searches, in response to proposed media law
    “This explains everything about my failed Google searches this week,” one Globe and Mail journalist tweeted.
    Joshua BentonFebruary 21, 2023
    For the tech giants, security is increasingly a paid feature
    Identity verification on social platforms used to be a matter of trust and safety. Now for Twitter and Facebook, it’s a new line of revenue.
    Sarah ScireNovember 14, 2022
    Meta’s layoffs make it official: Facebook is ready to part ways with the news
    “Meta had the resources at its peak to do incredible things. Not just the dollars, but the encouragement to think of the best outcome possible, to make the biggest impact we could.”
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