As Israeli media look to level field with Facebook, some see hidden pitfalls
Simona Weinglass is an investigative reporter at The Times of Israel. Illustrative: People protest in front of the Facebook office in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski) In the face of faltering revenues and a tidal wave of layoffs, journalism outfits in Israel and around the world are now looking to an unlikely savior: Facebook, the same social media behemoth that has desiccated vital ad streams and left the news business in what many experts describe as a global crisis. In the United Kingdom, Facebook plans to begin to pay news outlets to feature their stories on ...
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