Facebook will remove its News tab, and stop paying publishers for news

Facebook’s News tab launched in 2019 with millions of dollars in content deals for publishers (a reported $10 million for the Wall Street Journal, $20 million for the New York Times, and $3 ... Read More

News publishers group urges government to investigate Google for blocking some California news outlets

An organization that represents more than 2,000 news publishers sent letters on Tuesday to federal agencies, urging them to launch an investigation into Google after the tech behemoth began removing ... Read More

Unfriend War - Publishers ‘likely to be kicked off’ Instagram and Facebook

Meta , second in the league of digital advertising platforms in the world, won’t renew its agreements to pay local publishers for their news appearing on Facebook. The publishers have ... Read More

Five of the biggest book publishers in US join lawsuit challenging Iowa book ban

Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan have joined Penguin Random House, who initially filed a lawsuit in November against Iowa, completing the line-up of the ‘Big Five’ US ... Read More

Facebook shuts news tab after Meta vows to stop paying Australian publishers for content

Meta says it will take a ... which owns Facebook and Instagram, has been criticised by the Australian government and media outlets over its decision to stop paying publishers for news content. Read More

Google and Facebook blocks hit revenue for The Tab publisher Digitalbox

Online publisher Digitalbox reported revenue decline of 22% as it blamed Google and Facebook algorithm decisions ... the big strategic issues affecting the future of the news industry. Read More

World News Quick Take

Rose told the New York Times on Friday that De Brunhoff, who was born in Paris in 1925, had died at home in Key West, Florida. Created in 1931 by Laurent de Brunhoff’s parents, the Babar series has ... Read More

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

When I was the editor of Time, the publisher estimated that the “pass-along rate” of every issue ... with news on Facebook. In the past year, according to CNN, Meta has changed its algorithm ... Read More

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘had no idea’ about Kate Middleton’s cancer: ‘Trust has been broken’

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were reportedly blindsided, learning of Middleton’s health struggle on the very day the tragic news broke to the world ... royals did issue a brief message ... Read More

Review: ‘3 Body Problem’ is an alien invasion story that doesn’t feel like a retread

It’s a sort of audition, it turns out. But for what? The story’s components are familiar — aliens whose world is in peril setting their sights on Earth, remote mind control, human fifth ... Read More

Politicization of scientific issues a threat to our world

All of the above underline a critical threat to our country and indeed to the world, the politicization of scientific issues ... D. is a retired radiologist, a published science writer, an ... Read More

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