Stop using Facebook for news
To answer the question you posed in Issue 667 (page 8) – no, I never use Facebook as a source of news, and I wish other people would stop doing so. It sounds as if Facebook agrees, because it has now deactivated the News tab in its app (pictured above right).
I’ve been using Facebook for 15 years, and have seen it evolve from a service for keeping up with friends to a globally huge multimedia beast that tries to be everything to everyone. I hadn’t even noticed the News tab, so I won’t miss it.
When I sign into Facebook, it’s to share a joke, an old photo or an interesting link with my close circle of friends and family. It has
