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Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Add Subscriptions For News Stories (mashable.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mashable: After years of simply forcing news organizations to heel to the almighty algorithm and craft their content for the News Feed, Facebook has added several features in the hopes of winning back the love of publishers. One of the biggest changes to come is subscriptions via Facebook. Here's how it works: Publishers using Instant Articles, Facebook's fast-loading article pages, will be able to have a paywall (certain number of articles per month) or have locked articles (freemium model). For either case, Facebook users will be prompted to subscribe to read more. All payments will be processed directly via publishers' websites, and Facebook will not take a cut -- at least not now. "If people subscribe after seeing news stories on Facebook, the money will go directly publishers who work hard to uncover the truth, and Facebook won't take a cut. We plan to start with a small group of U.S. and European publishers later this year and we'll listen to their feedback," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.
Who decides which publishers are 'working hard to uncover the truth"? Subscribers?
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We need a nice echo chamber safe space to push our message of hate.
Wow, pay for have propaganda shat at you. I'll pass.
Free flow of credible, sourced and vetted news ( with massive corporate monies at stake ) is essential to the American democratic Republic as we know it.
Zuckerberg could have done good things with his massive tool in this regard. I'm not seeing it. At all.
Nuke Mecca... no more magic rock, no more jihadis
Do news and publishing organizations really not understand that they are selling their future revenue streams and future customer base, if not outright their souls, when they cut these deals with Facebook? That's not even a jab at Facebook - just a cold-hearted business analysis.
Paying money to read more Trump is the end of the world and SJW narratives. No thanks. It's interesting how often the major news organizations with comment sections, turn them off for any article (even for paid subscribers) they're afraid people may criticize. Truth isn't what they're seeking.
... ney.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I have stopped using facebook, my feed is full of trump crap and hardly anything about my "friends", Facebook has just become a news portal where you can share what news you like with your friends...
hardly see aything about my friends... and you know what after i stopped checking facebook everyday.... NOTHING changed... so not wasting my time on that platform anymore.
It's not a typo if you understood the meaning!
A new look web site with new news everyday.
Free links, lists under topics and often updated.
No subscription needed. No payments needed.
The old www is the new freedom again. Social media goes full paywall.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
"work hard to uncover the truth..."
We know what side Zuckerberg is when it comes to that.
Gas chambers and ovens? I've heard that worked well in the past.
Once again there's a story about some oddball website, without any description in the summary as to what it is. I searched for this "facebook" and the closest thing I found was something called "fuckbook". I guess the summary has a typo? Apparently it's for meeting bitches nearby.
I'm quite surprised it also has a news feed, though..... not planning on signing up still.
Really hasn't been a problem.
Facebook gives me the creeps.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Is the Muslim question "what percentage of Muslims have committed acts of terrorism?" If so, the answer is 0.00009%.
So why not bypass Facebook, use RSS, free subscriptions?
Also I guess this is why people were pissed off about FB's FB-only "free ISP" that they wanted to bring to India?
By either
(A) No one is gonna pay for news from FB!'
Or
(B) It will be the best news filter out there no one will believe it if it's not paid for
Who cares? Mark Z jumped the shark a long time ago.
A "Moderate Muslim" is one who will stand back and watch as his more aggressive brothers stone gay people to death.
I'm stoned right now. Hell, I think my feet are on backwards. How stoned do I have to get to cause death? Do I need to catch the gay, first?
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
The entire point of the Web was interconnected documents that people can share. With corporations controlling the standards body (W3C) and the browser market, they've captured the tech and are now transforming it to effectively toll sites. If content is locked behind paywalls, the integrity of the Web gets compromised, since there will be dead links users will be forced to route around or pay up.
The winning move? Stop browsing. Give your eyeballs to people who aren't trying to sell you something. Or keep'em for yourself and go do something fun.
Corporations are filth.
So ... now Facebook wants me to pay them to promote their biases to me as "news"?
Nuke Mecca... no more magic rock, no more jihadis
IS considers the "black stone" a form of idolatry and would love it being destroyed.
I already use subscriptions for news stories.
It's called RSS.
See, there's your problem.
I use a subscription for news items. It's called my internet connection.
FB is so last century.
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is like getting nutritional tips from cannibals.
One guess why they want to fatten you up.
I've spent a lot of time over the past year meeting with news organizations to talk about how we can work better together. As more people get more of their news from places like Facebook, we have a responsibility to create an informed community and help build common understanding. --Mark Zuckerberg
I think I need to go take Google's depression survey now, after considering the kind of 'informed community' that could only be created with the people that would let Facebook create an information filter bubble for them.