Preparing for a Post-Feed World
Facebook’s earnings call laid out a vision for the platform’s future that’s very different than its present state. CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared an update that Facebook plans to start relying less on the News Feed to generate revenue and plans to encourage users to spend less time there as well. The News Feed has been an albatross, albeit a very profitable one, for Facebook throughout 2018 as its been used by foreign agents to spread misinformation, clickbait websites to generate clicks and governments to spread lies and propagate xenophobia.
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