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Senior writer + founder of @NiemanLab at @Harvard. I write about (a) digital journalism, (b) southern history, mostly. Proud Cajun. Takes mine, not Harvard's.

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    Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 11 Jan 2018

    My big q post-Facebook feed change will be: Will people who are now getting, say, 30% less news than they were before *feel* that absence? Enough to seek out replacement consumption elsewhere? (My depressing hunch is, broadly, no.)

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      2. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 11 Jan 2018

        I don't think publishers or journalists have ever fully internalized the degree to which, for a majority of people, friends/family content is a perfectly-acceptable-to-excellent substitution good for traditional news.

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      3. Joshua Benton‏Verified account @jbenton 11 Jan 2018

        (Even slightly more nihilistially, I don't think most publishers/journalists realize the degree to which news as a *concept* is an invention born of the overlap of individual interest and mass-distribution technology, and that FB destroys much of the need for that Venn diagram.)

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      2. profile name‏ @analytics_ey 11 Jan 2018
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        No because it’s not going to stop them from using Facebook

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      3. profile name‏ @analytics_ey 11 Jan 2018
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        This is what Snapchat learned from Instagram Snapchat had a great feature first. But the users didn’t *stop* using Instagram. So when Instagram added the same feature... Snapchat didn’t have a chance

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      1. Brian Orce‏ @jimnobu 11 Jan 2018
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        Anyone who gets their news “primarily” through* facebook would absolutely not seek it out elsewhere. *No one gets their news “from” Facebook

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      1. Elizabeth Evans‏ @Wallacewriter 12 Jan 2018
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        It's probably also worth wondering about the source and quality of the news some were getting before. Not all "news" is good news.

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      1. Michael Covington‏ @Mkc20165Michael 12 Jan 2018
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        30 percent less CNN propaganda by the lowest rated news channel should be dialed up to 70 percent

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