How Facebook’s Big Changes Impact One Local Publisher — Some Surprising Conclusions

Posted Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:28 am

Tom Grubisich | StreetFight

To find out the impact of the big changes that Facebook is making to its all-important News Feed – featured in my column last week, here and here — I went to a local news publisher who is confronting how those changes shape his four-year-old site.

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How Facebook’s Big Changes Impact One Local Publisher — Some Surprising Conclusions

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