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March 18, 2019 05:51 pm GMT
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Facebook fights local 'news deserts' it helped create
Facebook is once again touting its attempt to solve a problem it helped create.
The company announced Monday that it would provide select researchers access to information about news deserts, which are places with little to no local news coverage. The research sharing is part of the Facebook Journalism Project, the company's initiative to enable the spread of high quality journalism and news literacy on Facebook.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina found that the U.S. has lost more than 1,800 newspapers since 2004. Read more...
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