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Is Facebook's "Instant Articles" Bad For Publishers?

Michael Wolf thinks serious publishers like The New York Times are getting a raw deal with Facebook’s Instant Articles, and similar services. As he writes in the MIT Technology Review: “It is not only that this syndication arrangement gives the Times no direct payments, but ‘instant articles’ and other platform distribution deals move the business another step closer toward what Ken Doctor … calls ‘off news site’ reading.”
 

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