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The two billion figure is not an accurate one. Two billion users (not individual persons) rely entirely on Facebook as their primary source of news. I don't thi
by grenoire 9y ago
The two billion figure is not an accurate one. Two billion users (not individual persons) rely entirely on Facebook as their primary source of news. I don't think the relevant figure is more than a few millions.
- dredmorbius 9y agoI'm sorry, but what part of this are you disagreeing with? That Facebook is a media channel? That it doesn't in fact have 2 billion MUA, as claimed? https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/ That some other channel is more significant? That there is another information channel to which a similar number of people dedicate 50 minutes of attention to daily? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/facebook-bends-the-rules-of-audience-engagement-to-its-advantage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/facebook-bends-t... "I don't think" is ... a rather weak level of substantiation.