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Matt Wille

Facebook pivots away from news after shoving it in our faces for years

Facebook’s priorities are shifting again. The social network is planning to pivot its resources away from its News tab and Bulletin newsletter platform so it can divert those resources to funding the creator economy instead, according to a memo sent to employees.

The memo, a copy of which was seen by The Wall Street Journal, was sent by Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of global media partnerships. Facebook will move engineering and product support employees to work on “building a more robust Creator economy,” the memo says.

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