How Evil Is Facebook? (260)

<p>In headline news, <a href= "https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-e6a1f690-887a-47e4-9430-d24899592f9c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook makes a deal with the Aussie press</a>, doing exactly what we said they would do last week. At the same time, <a href= "https://deadline.com/2021/02/facebook-to-invest-1-billion-in-news-industry-over-3-years-slams-publishers-for-demanding-blank-check-to-help-ailing-business-as-australia-news-mark-zuckerberg-1234699826/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook commits to $1 billion for the news industry</a>. A generous gift or more of the same from Facebook?</p> <p><a href= "https://www.marketingdive.com/news/macys-touts-new-media-network-in-bid-to-sell-35m-plus-in-ads-to-brands/595610/"> Macy's media network is taking off</a> to a tune of more than $35 million. Can their business model be saved? Robert and Joe believe the opportunities are great in number.</p> <p><a href= "https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/stronger-appetite-for-news-curation-leads-to-subscription-rise-at-dennis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Print is back again</a>, while the <a href= "https://digiday.com/marketing/ad-techs-latest-consolidation-wave/"> great ad tech consolidation</a> is upon us.</p> <p>Rants and raves include <a href= "https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/portugal-the-man-cryptocurrency-ptm-coin-1129477/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social money creator tokens</a> from an Oregon-based band and the <a href= "https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/23/tech/splinternet-tech-regulation-facebook/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worldwide web is ending as we know it</a>.</p> <p>------</p> <p>This week's sponsor: <a href= "https://accessibe.com/">accessiBe</a></p> <p><span style="color: black;">accessiBe, the company that <a href= "https://accessibe.com/blog/knowledgebase/we-analyzed-10000000-pages-and-heres-where-most-fail-with-ada-and-wcag-21-compliance"> conducted the research discussed on the show</a>, offers an automated, AI-based accessibility solution and ong