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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?
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.
... 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"
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.
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?
Who cares? Mark Z jumped the shark a long time ago.
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."
Well, given his last name, he's probably not going to side with the Nazis.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
You desperately need a sharp stake to the brain. Perhaps you'll stop having these weird episodes where you lose track of reality for decades at a time. You dumb fuck.
So ... now Facebook wants me to pay them to promote their biases to me as "news"?
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.