Publishers have been vocal in their protests of being included in the same archive as political ads. Facebook has agreed to create a distinction between publishers’ content and political ads, but it has not yet built a separate archive. “They have not built trust with publishers.”Although Facebook remains a vital outlet for publishers, its power has diminished. According to data from Chartbeat, an online analytics company, publishers’ traffic from Facebook has declined about 15 percent in the last year. During the discussion on Thursday, Mr. Thompson sparred with Ms. Brown, who was an NBC News correspondent and a CNN anchor before joining Facebook.

Source: New York Times June 14, 2018 23:48 UTC