Big news outlets stupidly sold their soul to Facebook. Desperate for the referral traffic Facebook dangled, they spent the past few years jumping through its hoops only to be cut out of the equation. Instead of developing an owned audience of homepage visitors and newsletter subscribers, they let Facebook brainwash readers into thinking it was their source of information.
Now Facebook is pushing into local news, but publishers should be wary of making the same crooked deal. It might provide more exposure and traffic for smaller outlets today, but it could teach users they only need to visit Facebook for local news in the future. Here's how Facebook retrained us over the past 12 years to drain the dollars out of news.
Source : How Facebook stole the news business
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday February 05 2018, @07:11AM (1 child)
While there are many links to other websites, the less well-educated people quite likely consider all those other websites to be part of Facebook.
What about email?
What about it? No one uses email anymore, they just use Facebook's private messaging.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @03:06PM
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That's a good one.