He’s kinda been left with no choice, tho…
03.10.2023 - 22:57 / deadline.com
Campbell Brown, Meta Platforms Inc.’s head of media and sports partnerships, is stepping down from the post, according to multiple reports.
Brown, who was an anchor and correspondent at CNN for 14 years, joined the company in 2017 as head of Facebook’s news partnership program. She later helped lead its $100M to commitment to news reporting during the pandemic, an effort it seems to have since abandoned.
Axios, which first reported the news, also reported this morning that referrals to news sites from the company’s Facebook platform have cratered from about 120 million in 2020 to a little over 22 million in July of this year as it refocuses on video and viral content.
Meta issued a statement to Bloomberg about Brown’s departure: “She will continue a strong working relationship with Meta as a consultant to the company. Media and sports partnerships continue to be a priority for Meta and its apps, and we look forward to working with Campbell in her new capacity.”
In Canada, the government and news providers are currently at odds with social media giants after the country’s new Online News Act — also known as Bill C-18 — ordered the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner to compensate news orgs when those outlets’ content is shared.
Meta claims the law “misrepresents the value news outlets receive when choosing to use our platforms” and is based on “on the incorrect premise that Meta benefits unfairly from news content shared on our platforms, when the reverse is true.”
Meta chose to stop hosting news sites in Canada and announced earlier this month announced that in December it would “deprecate” Facebook News in the UK, Germany and France.
California is also seeking to introduce legislation that would require platforms
He’s kinda been left with no choice, tho…
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