

No one else even comes close to matching Facebook's scale. Facebook is still the two billion-user Goliath of the media world, and it hasn't abandoned news entirely, just de-emphasized it. The answers to those questions aren't clear yet. With Facebook backing away from the news business, how will users change their news consumption? Will Facebook users turn elsewhere for their news, or will they just see less of it? And are there opportunities for other news platforms to pick up the readers Facebook is putting down? were relying on Facebook for their news, according to Pew Research (Opens in a new tab). As of September last year, 45 percent of users in the U.S. The move is dramatically changing how millions and millions of people find and consume news.

It's 2018, and BlackBerry just sued FacebookĪnd while Little Things is certainly a dramatic case study of what can go wrong when Facebook changes its priorities, publishers aren't the only ones at at the whim of Facebook's shifting algorithm.
