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This is only a short summary. There is a couple of full reports on the main page of their website.

Unfortunately, is is not very interesting because the study seems to rely almost completely on Facebook data. The effects on that platform were pretty predictible.

There are obvious questions left unanswered:

- What was the effect on direct traffic ?

- What was the effect on paid subscriptions ?

- Are people effectively less informed ?



As a Canadian active on social media, I’ll also add that the quality of news I consume and am exposed to has dramatically increased.




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