Monday, March 01, 2021

Facebook to pump $1 billion into news industry

Facebook says it will invest $1 billion in the news industry in the next three years.

The pledge to pump the money into the industry came in a Feb. 24 blog post from Nick Clegg, VP of Global Affairs.

The pledge comes after a kerfuffle with Australia in which Facebook stopped the sharing of news on its service in Australia. That spat has now been resolved and Australia has passed a news media bargaining code.

In October 2020, Google said in a blog post that it was investing $1 billion in the news industry.

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