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Why Facebook Has Been Less Important to News Publishers

Why Facebook Has Been Less Important to News Publishers

Why Facebook Has Been Less Important to News Publishers

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

March 12, 20185m 4s

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In January, Facebook said it will reduce the volume of news in its news feed, in favor of more posts from friends and family. In fact, Facebook’s role in distributing news has been falling dramatically for more than a year. Data from Parse.ly, which tracks visits to more than 2,500 publisher sites, shows that ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, more than 40 percent of traffic to those sites came from Facebook.

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