LE FIGARO INFO – The American giant announced to the Media Services agency (a subsidiary of AFP), which provided content curation in France, the end of its contract as of January 1, 2023.
Just a few months after launching Facebook News in France, Meta decided to replace humans with algorithms to handle the curation of news content on its service. The American giant announced at the end of October to the Media Services agency (a subsidiary of Agence France Presse), which until now provided 24 hours a day and 7 days a week the selection and prioritization of articles “that reflect the most important topics of the day, with articles that are sourced, balanced, and displaying a diversity of points of view”, the end of his contract as of January 1, 2023, has learned Le Figaro. Media Services must thus part with more than a dozen employees on fixed-term contracts, who had been hired to fulfill this curation mission. “ We constantly evaluate our global content curation partnerships based on user and product needs “comments a spokesperson for Meta.
The Facebook News service was launched in France in February 2022…
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