Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, announced on Tuesday that it will be discontinuing the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany.
The tab, which was launched in 2019, allowed users to view news articles from a variety of publishers.
Meta said that the decision to discontinue the tab was made because it was not seeing enough engagement from users. The company also said that it was facing increasing regulatory pressure in Europe, where governments are demanding that tech giants pay news publishers for their content.
The decision to discontinue the Facebook News tab is a setback for news publishers, who had hoped to use the platform to reach a wider audience. However, it is also a sign of the changing landscape of news consumption. More and more people are getting their news from social media, but they are also becoming more skeptical of the information they see there.
