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Meta’s Oversight Board warns that “Community Notes” aren’t a proper substitute for fact-checking globally (Nieman Lab)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 06:15National Trust for Local News sells 21 newspapers to a company with a history of gutting local outlets (Nieman Lab)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/15/2025 - 10:1911 (and counting) things journalism loses if Elon Musk destroys Twitter (Nieman Lab)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/21/2022 - 06:26Ukraine’s information war is winning hearts and minds in the West (Nieman Lab)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 05/25/2022 - 12:49When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up
On October 4, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for more than five hours. For five+ hours, people read news, according to Chartbeat data from its thousands of publisher clients across 60 countries. (And they went to Twitter; Chartbeat saw Twitter traffic up 72%. At the peak of the outage — around 3 p.m. ET — net traffic to pages across the web was up by 38% compared to the same time the previous week, Chartbeat found.