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Facebook has announced that news sites which rely on paid subscriptions, limiting readers to a certain number of articles per week, will now be able to do so through Instant Articles. The company has spent the last two years promoting these Facebook-hosted versions of articles, which unfortunately lacked this rather critical ability. Google\u2019s AMP and Apple News have supported it for a while.<\/p>\n

News organizations, which have been asking Facebook for this for some time, will get to keep 100 percent of the revenue generated by subscriptions originating from Instant Articles. Anything less wouldn\u2019t be competitive and would only drive participants away. You\u2019ll be directed to the news site\u2019s own subscription process, not some Facebook thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuality journalism costs money to produce, and we want to make sure it can thrive on Facebook,\u201d read a statement from Campbell Brown, Facebook\u2019s Head of News Partnerships. On Facebook<\/em> is right: Instant Articles, like AMP and Apple News, are a great way for internet heavyweights to throw their weight around<\/a>.
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The ability to serve content faster than where it originated is the privilege of the platform on which people find it. Facebook, Google, and Apple have all been exploiting this privilege, which, while it does lower load times, is not conducive to a single, standardized web. And it deepens content providers\u2019 dependence on those platforms \u2014 which in turn increases the latter\u2019s leverage. Not good.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s nice that Facebook is adding this feature, since without it Instant Articles were essentially back doors to paywalled content (okay, we all used the old \u201cgoogle the headline\u201d trick, but still). But ultimately these programs are pretty much just a bad idea \u2014 a long game to exert more control over the web at the cost of competitors and content providers. But they\u2019re a reality, so we just have to deal with it.<\/p>\n

That said, if you want to support \u201cquality journalism,\u201d your best bet is to cut out the middle man and go directly to the source: the news sites themselves.<\/p>\n

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