In early April, the Facebook News tab will start disappearing for users in the US and Australia. Meta has announced that it's deprecating the dedicated tab found in the bookmarks section of its social network as part of its efforts to "align [its] investments to [its] products and services people value the most." The company already retired the News tab in the UK, France and Germany in early December 2023, explaining that it's funneling its resources to other things that people want to see more of, such as short form videos. In Meta's new post, it said the number of people using the News tab in the US and Australia over the past year has dropped by 80 percent. News makes up less than three percent of what users see on Facebook apparently, and it's just not a big part of their experience. "We know that people don’t come to Facebook for news and political content — they come to connect with people and discover new opportunities, passions and interests," the company wrote. By pulling the News tab in Australia, the company will also stop paying publishers in the country for their content after their current deals end. A few years ago, Facebook blocked news links in the country in response to the then-proposed law that would require companies like Meta to pay media organizations for their content. The company unblocked news links just a few days later after it started striking deals with Australian media organizations. According to The Age, the Australian Competition and... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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Daily Telegraph talks up chances Charles will attend the Everest. Plus: ABC splashes cash on redesignFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWith King Charles and Queen Camilla arriving on Friday for the couple’s first... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-18 01:06:28 UTC ]
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Contentious proposed bill would exclude professional news content, but News Corp worried that it would be considered a media serviceFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNews Corp has raised concerns the federal... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-17 06:17:31 UTC ]
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Markson says sit-down with Israel’s PM like meeting ‘Winston Churchill during his fight against the Nazis’. Plus: News Corp reprints cartoon found to be offensiveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSharri Markson spent... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-11 00:31:16 UTC ]
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Decision comes after UK real estate portal turned down fourth offer from Australian property companyBusiness live – latest updatesThe Rupert Murdoch-backed real estate company REA Group has abandoned its attempt to take over the website Rightmove after its fourth offer was rebuffed on Monday.The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-09-30 12:05:59 UTC ]
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Behind closed doors in a courtroom in Reno, Nevada, a high-stakes family business dispute has been unfolding. Rupert Murdoch is trying to change the terms of a longstanding family trust to give his favoured eldest son, Lachlan, full control of his media empire after his death.Associate professor... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-09-23 15:00:07 UTC ]
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TollBit The 28-year-old founders of TollBit, a New York-based startup that is all of six months old, think we’re living in the “Napster days” of AI. Just like people of a certain generation downloaded digital music, companies are ripping off vast swaths of the internet without paying the rights... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-08-23 16:29:42 UTC ]
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Exclusive: Former News Corp CEO says Murdoch company’s obsession with the public broadcaster is ‘fairly unhinged’ and should largely be ignoredFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastKim Williams, the current... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-08-10 20:00:05 UTC ]
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A preliminary inquiry threatens to reopen a tumultuous chapter in U.K. news media history. It could entangle The Washington Post’s publisher and other former News Corp figures. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Murdoch’s Australian arm has quietly slashed tens of millions of dollars in costs to counter a slow advertising market and loss of revenue from Meta dealFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSome of News... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-07-24 08:18:25 UTC ]
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Apology from Sky News was published at 7pm on Friday – a time when very few would see it, complainants say. Plus: speculation over Paul Barry’s replacementGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMiriki Performing Arts has gracefully accepted an apology from News... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-06-14 15:00:54 UTC ]
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No matter what the national broadcaster does, News Corp and the Australian will keep gnawing at itThere are a few things we can assume the ABC board and executive know only too well.First, News Corporation, and the Australian newspaper in particular, will always attack the ABC. The reasons are a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-05-31 15:00:11 UTC ]
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Murdoch’s empire down under has been quietly reorganised – with a long, slow cull of journalists expected to followNews Corp Australia has been laser focused on the travails of rival media entities Nine Entertainment and the ABC lately, while largely ignoring the major restructure in its own... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-05-31 03:38:19 UTC ]
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Asked by Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young whether ABC political journalist Laura Tingle had been subjected to a 'News Corp pile-on' after her comments on racism in Australia, the national broadcaster's managing director, David Anderson, said she had. At the Senate estimates hearing, the senator... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-05-31 01:55:16 UTC ]
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David Anderson says News Corp is ‘obsessed’ with the ABC after Tingle faces backlash over ‘racist country’ commentsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe ABC managing director, David Anderson, has told Senate estimates he believes the attack on the political... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-05-30 09:34:48 UTC ]
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In the last few months, news organizations have leapt into bed with OpenAI, hatching Faustian bargains where the cash-strapped media industry exchanges a monetary pittance for OpenAI's right to scrape and integrate their content into things like ChatGPT. Those that have signed in blood include... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-05-29 16:21:28 UTC ]
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The digital media company TMB, formerly Trusted Media Brands, is on pace to generate nearly $200 million in revenue in its most recent fiscal year, which ends in June, according to chief executive Bonnie Kintzer. Though the company isn't sharing financial specifics, the... Continue reading at AdWeek
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How and where ads are placed has a huge impact on carbon emissions for digital media companies, a new report from carbon intelligence firm Cedara shows. The report, released today and shared exclusively with ADWEEK, uses data from Cedara clients to map the environmental... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-05-29 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Staff told some people will ‘regrettably leave our business’ as media empire is reorganised into three divisionsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRupert Murdoch’s Australian media empire has been... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Tingle says Australia is a ‘racist country’ in response to question at Sydney writers’ festival about Peter Dutton’s immigration policyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe ABC has flatly denied the board held emergency talks after News Corp lambasted Laura... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-05-28 08:38:17 UTC ]
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OpenAI and News Corp, the owner of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, The Sun, and more than a dozen other publishing brands, have struck a multi-year deal to display news from these publications in ChatGPT, News Corp announced on Wednesday. OpenAI will be able to access both current and well... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-05-22 21:46:16 UTC ]
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