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Facebook Pilot Links User Profiles with Online News Subscriptions

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:27AM   
from the I-see-what-you're-doing-there dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Facebook pilot links user profiles with online news subscriptions:

It works like this: When Facebook identifies that a user subscribes to a participating publisher, it will invite the user to link their subscription account. Once the accounts are connected, if the user clicks on a paywalled link via Facebook, they won't have to sign-in to access the content. Users who link their Facebook and news accounts will also see more stories from those publishers in Facebook News.

Facebook is testing the feature with a handful of publishers, ranging from The Atlantic to the Winnipeg Free Press, and early test results are promising. In June, subscribers who linked their Facebook accounts made 111 percent more article clicks compared to those who didn't link their accounts, Facebook said in a blog post.

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Original Submission

• Re:Can you even avoid FB anymore? (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:26PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:26PM (#1046001)

  Government? if they make it so people have to have an FB account to access public services and data they will get sued.

  Not if they're smart and requiere a FB account for access to the court system first.

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