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Meta: 3-4% of users’ feeds is #news.

Pew: 31% of American adults say they regularly get news from Facebook.

So either #Meta and Americans define news differently, the small amount of news shared on #Facebook has an outsized impact, or likely, a bit of both.

That said, during the last two multi-hour Facebook outages, direct and total visitors to our legacy local news sites went up.

It’s more evidence that communities will seek out impactful content.

#journalism #socialmedia
_ it will be a happy day when people finally figure out that they don't need Facebook for anything. Facebook does not provide a single service that is unique.

People should not get their news from it in any case. Facebook is the place where low-information voters are born and fed.