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.
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.
xoenix |6 pointswritten 7 months ago ago
LOL
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.