Facebook reportedly plans newsletter tools after explosion in popularity

Jon Potter, The Verge, 29 January 2021

Facebook is planning to offer newsletter tools for independent journalists and writers, after a surge in interest in online newsletters. Newsletter service Substack boasted over 250,000 paying subscribers across its service as of September 2020, with several high-profile journalists ditching traditional publications to also start their own independent newsletter. A spokesperson from Facebook said the social media platform is looking at working on ways to ...Read more