Meta platforms (Facebook/Instagram)

CTL-E-0698 · Technology · 2018–present (platform-risk era)

Verified evidence grade of this record

Meta's Facebook (and Instagram) distribution infrastructure: the January 2018 feed-algorithm shift and 2024 News-tab deprecation that repeatedly stranded publishers built on its traffic.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MEDIA-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MEDIA-001:MED-071; source research type(s): Technology.

Sources

Digiday, 'As promised, Facebook traffic to news publishers declines again'; Adweek, 'Here's How Facebook's Algorithm Shift Is Hurting Digital Publishers'
CJR, 'Another news site that relied on Facebook shuts down'
TechCrunch; Wikipedia
TechCrunch, 'Facebook plans to shut down its news tab in the US and Australia'

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