At the beginning of summer in the online community appeared rumors that the subscription to news groups in Facebook will be paid. The representative of the company’s Campbell brown, speaking at a conference, confirmed this information and specified that testing a new feature planned for October.
According to brown, the social network is thus just come to meet the media, whose representatives have repeatedly requested access to their publications pay. The fact that the income of news publishers from advertising falling, while Google and Facebook they grow. The publishers are confident that it occurs, including through publication in the network of media content. The introduction of a paid subscription will allow to stabilize the situation.
Also a new feature will allow you to deal more effectively with fakes, said brown. Lately they are getting bigger, which leads to high-profile scandals affecting the reputation of Facebook.