2022-11-02
Revealed on @pressgazette: Facebook News tab journalists in the UK are being replaced by AI. The tab is currently run by around 15 journalist curators working for Axel Springer's Upday. Meta is terminating Upday's curation contract in early 2023. https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
Press Gazette
Source: Meta plans to end human curation of its UK Facebook News tab, contracted to a team of ~15 journalists at Upday, and switch to an AI system in early 2023
William Turvill / Press Gazette :
Meta informed UK publishers about the end of human curation shortly after this investigation raised concerns about the way the Facebook News tab was run https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
Press Gazette
Source: Meta plans to end human curation of its UK Facebook News tab, contracted to a team of ~15 journalists at Upday, and switch to an AI system in early 2023
William Turvill / Press Gazette :
2022-06-10
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that news publishers are preparing to lose millions of dollars of licensing revenue as Facebook reconsiders the value of news. WSJ reports that the NYT currently gets $20m+ a year, WaPo $15m+ and itself $10m+ https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: some US news outlets prepare for shortfalls as Meta weighs ending fees for news; annual fees averaged $20M+ for NYT, $15M+ for WaPo, and $10M+ for WSJ
Social-media company pays more than $10 million a year to a handful of news organizations to feature their content on its news tab
2022-01-27
In the UK, the BBC's home market where it employs thousands of journalists, more people use the Apple News app than the BBC News app. New stats from @aisha1309/ @IpsosMORI https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
Press Gazette
Ipsos: Apple News was the most widely used UK news app in December 2021 with 13.2M users and 1.2B minutes spent; BBC News had 12.5M users and 2.2B minutes spent
The Apple News app narrowly beat BBC News to take the spot of most popular news app in the UK in December, according to data from Ipsos iris.