This Week's Merge: Facebook Charging To Post Is Fake News - But What If It Had Been True?

Lori Lewis

CUMULUS and WESTWOOD ONE VP/Social and MERGE author LORI LEWIS writes, "Journalists jumped to conclusions this week when it was discovered FACEBOOK had been running tests in six countries where they were removing content out of the main News Feed from publishers and businesses, and placing their content into a separate, hard-to-find area called, 'Explore.'

Nearly every single digital publication jumped on this story with scary click bait headlines!

"The fake news became so all consuming, FACEBOOK issued this statement:
In part, "There is no current plan to roll this out beyond these test countries or to charge pages on Facebook to pay for all their distribution in News Feed or Explore. Unfortunately, some have mistakenly made that interpretation - but that was not our intention."

"But what if FACEBOOK ever does charge?"

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