FB has become the main source of news as everyone is on the platform 24/7 and everyone follows news sites on FB.<p>Now, FB doesn't revshare (to my understanding) on page posts, only on videos.<p>This has caused news organizations and quality journalism to lose valuable page views and with that, ad revenue.<p>It's crazy and sad seeing how quality content MIT, NYT, etc. is paywalled.<p>Isn't FB guilty of this? Shouldn't FB rev share? They are basically profiting off of other organizations hard work and journalism, while they are simply "the comment section".<p>We all talk about free college education and how we should strive for that and I believe journalism is just that. It's crazy seeing good news sources not available to the general public freely.<p>Rant over.
"We all talk about free college education and how we should strive for that ..."<p>We don't <i>all</i> talk about or strive for that. But that's a bit off topic.<p>"It's crazy seeing good news sources not available to the general public freely."<p>Why is this crazy? This has been the norm. Want a newspaper? Have to buy one. Radio and TV emerged as a news source and are still "free" today. Quality papers on the internet have typically been paywalled all the time (think Elsevier etc).<p>I don't think Facebook is a major news source for everyone. I see local stuff come up often, but it's not the stuff that would typically make the papers. I don't see very much national stuff come up on Facebook. When it does, it's usually low quality, one sided, stuff that someone is using to support a political opinion.