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Facebook Tightening Grip On News Media

  • Salon, Tuesday, February 18, 2014 12 PM
Facebook’s recent algorithm tweak was widely seen as an attack on so-called “social publishers” like Upworthy and Viral, which exist to game the social network. While the move was supposed to promote more quality content in users’ news feeds, some Web watchers find the move unsettling. “It’s easy to read into this a slightly ominous message: This is Facebook’s Internet, and the media is just attempting to find a way to sustain itself in it,” Alex Pareene writes in Salon.com.
 

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