At Mother Jones, a 48-year-old nonprofit magazine specializing in politics and investigations, the implications were dramatic.
"The firehose of Facebook traffic was never going to pay for our journalism, for the majority of our journalism," Bauerlein said.
Last decade, many publishers saw their "social traffic decline pretty dramatically," with Facebook deprioritizing text-based articles in favor of video content, Cholke said.
"If we all end up finding news in the metaverse, then you'll be finding Mother Jones in the metaverse," she said.
What Mother Jones won't do, she said, is "bet everything on one platform, because that never works out."
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