Facebook has now announced that they will end Facebook News in April 2024. For information, Facebook News is a special tab provided by Facebook on their social platform in several countries, and features news from a number of publishers.
Regardless, according to Facebook, users don't come to their platform for news or political content. The use of Facebook News itself fell 80% in 2023. In addition, according to the last 2023 data, content in the form of news is less than 3% of the type of content that users see on Facebook Feed.
In parallel, Facebook stated that it will not continue the agreement with some publishers in the United States and Australia, and will continue to work with content publishers until the cooperation period ends.
The social media giant also emphasized that news organizations can still use Facebook Pages as usual to easily share their content with followers.