Posted on 05/16/2015 4:46:49 AM PDT by W.
Hey Web publishers! Facebook is coming in peace.
The social giant has finally unveiled the terms of its “give us your content and let us run it on our app” plan, which starts tomorrow. And the terms look very good: It’s hard to imagine any publisher passing on the chance, if they get it, to collect eyeballs and dollars on Facebook’s mobile platform, which boasts 1.25 billion users.
All they have to do is hope Facebook continues to use its enormous power to help, not hurt them. And that it doesn’t change the rules someday.
For now, the publishers involved in the initial rollout of what Facebook calls “Instant Articles” — the New York Times, National Geographic, BuzzFeed, NBC News* and the Atlantic launch Wednesday morning; the Guardian, BBC News, Spiegel and Bild soon — are careful to describe their participation as an “experiment.” There are no commitments from any publisher to run a certain amount of articles with Facebook, and any publisher can walk at any point.
Face book has been co opted to become a propaganda outlet
What was it before?
"The medium is the message."
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Not a chance that Facebook has 1.25 billion users.
They are the AOL of deceit.
Do they stop Yahoo ads? And those on Breitbart?
Which would be just fine if they also published The Washington Times, the New York Post, Fox News, The Blaze, News Max, WND, CNS News, UPI, and the like.
Let's have the news from as wide a variety of sources as possible.
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