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  • Facebook Launches Journalism Project, Plans to Expand Monetization of Instant Articles

    Facebook Launches Journalism Project, Plans to Expand Monetization of Instant Articles

    After taking heat for the proliferation of “fake news” and misinformation on its platform during the US presidential election, Facebook is aiming to strengthen its ties with the news industry. “We care a great deal about making sure that a healthy news ecosystem and journalism can thrive,” Facebook director of product Fidji Simo said in…

  • Automattic Releases WordPress Plugin for Facebook’s Instant Articles

    Automattic Releases WordPress Plugin for Facebook’s Instant Articles

    Today the WordPress.com VIP team released a plugin for Facebook’s Instant Articles, which will be open to any publisher starting April 12, 2016. Automattic partnered with Facebook and VIP-Featured-Partner agency Dekode to produce a plugin that outputs a compliant feed of posts wrapped in the required markup for Facebook. Instant Articles for WordPress is now…