I understand why the media is frustrated about this. Zuckerberg basically promised them all of this traffic if they just "go all in" with Facebook. And now he's pulling the blanket from under them - just like the media was warned he would do, and they didn't listen.<p>That said, from an objective point of view, first off the media is not entitled to the user's home page in a random social network. They should have never believed that they were.<p>Second, to be honest, I think it's better for democracy if stories aren't <i>fed</i> by Facebook through its black-box algorithm. I suppose the a small government like the Serbian one couldn't do much to get Facebook to spread their propaganda through it, but if say the U.S. government were to do that, or even say the Indian government - oh boy. It would be such a propaganda machine, better than TV ever was.<p>The second part to this is that even if governments don't directly control the feeds to spread propaganda, they <i>can</i> exploit Facebook's algorithm, just like Russia supposedly did in the U.S. election, so the end result is the same.<p>This is why I'd rather <i>people do their own research</i> and they do the job of looking for posts, rather than "being served" those posts by a black magic algorithm that may have all sorts of biases embedded in it.