Traffic referrals to the top global news sites from Meta's Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, has collapsed over the past year.

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[–]xoenix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

LOL

What's happening: Regulatory pressure and free speech concerns have pushed tech giants to abandon efforts to elevate quality information, leaving the public more susceptible to misinformation ahead of the 2024 election.

Just a bunch of sobbing over the fact that X no longer censors and fake boosts leftist news like it did pre-Elon, and that social media in general no longer hunts down every single Covid/vax post they don't like. Also California was looking to tax social media sites for news links, just like the idiot Libs in Canada.

[–]Hematomato 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's interesting that these referrals have declined considerably more on Facebook than they have on X.

Axios blames "regulatory pressure," but I'm not so sure. Two other factors in the mix:

1) "Top global news sites" are paywalling, and no one wants to link people to stuff they can't read;

2) Politics fatigue. I think it's very real. We all lost friends and even family members over politics between 2014 and 2021, and now a lot of us would rather see anything other than politics. And that's pretty much all the "top global news sites" cover anymore.

[–]NutterButterFlutter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As a "part A" to add onto your #2 Politics Fatigue:

Maybe people are getting a little more internet-tech-savvy as a result, and finding ways to block certain sites or content. Not only from displaying, but also from tracking them if they happen to click.