Several items of note to
report involving Facebook.
• Facebook is accelerating its plans to expand Facebook News
internationally. The company aims to launch Facebook News in multiple countries
within the next six months to a year and is considering the
• After Facebook raised concerns over lost ad revenue due
to Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes, other digital publishers have chimed in. One
publisher says ad rates on iOS could fall as much as 40%, The Wall Street
Journal and 9to5mac reported.
• Facebook has introduced Facebook Shop, a new place to discover businesses and
shop for products in the Facebook app, says Facebook. Facebook started testing
this in the
• Facebook says Apple rejected its effort to tell people that Apple would take a 30% cut of sales in a new online events feature, Reuters reported. Apple made Facebook take that info off to get the tool to users, says Reuters.
Facebook also aimed to inform users on the Google Play
store that Facebook wouldn’t take a fee for ticket sales, but that message was
also not shown, says Reuters.
Apple is also in a high-profile corporate spat with
Fortnite creator Epic Games, which is suing Apple.
• Facebook has a new account linking tool that provides a better experience for
people on Facebook when they see and access content from publishers they
subscribe to, says the company. Facebook is collaborating with publishers
around the world to test this new product, which allows people to link their
news subscription accounts on Facebook. Once implemented, linked subscribers will
not meet paywalls when accessing articles from Facebook and won’t be asked to
sign-in repeatedly, a common pain point many subscribers and publishers face
today, says Facebook.
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