The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse

According to an internal report, more than 90 percent of the clicks to coronavirus content came from “Power News Consumers” and “Power News Discussers” — Facebook’s terms for users who read and comment on news stories much more frequently than the average user. The company is now considering several options for targeting those people with higher-quality information to make sure it is “being spread downstream.”

Source: The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse

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