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Filip Struhárik sees media pages losing ground in Slovakia due to Facebook’s Newsfeed tests

Check Your Facts

English - October 25, 2017 18:01 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MB
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Filip Struhárik is editor and social media manager at Denník N, one of Slovakia's news platform. He recently discovered a huge loss of media pages' reach on Facebook and wrote about it.

We talk with him about the tests Facebook is doing in Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Bolivia, Guatemala and Cambodia (plus Indonesia) where all page posts are banned from the Newsfeed and put into its new Explore feed.

Filip Struhárik
TW: https://twitter.com/filip_struharik
FB: https://www.facebook.com/struharik
Updated Medium blog: https://medium.com/@filip_struharik/biggest-drop-in-organic-reach-weve-ever-seen-b2239323413

Links
Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/when-the-facebook-traffic-goes-away/543828/
Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/23/facebook-non-promoted-posts-news-feed-new-trial-publishers
BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41733119
Bali, Indonesia: https://www.travelfish.org/blog/2017/10/24/new-wordpress-newsfeed/
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