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Meta is preparing to close the Facebook
News option at the beginning of April for

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users in the United States and Australia. This comes after closing the show in

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the UK, France and Germany last
year. Users will be able to see

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links news articles and the media will
be able to publish and promote their stories

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and websites But Jo because Meta will
not recommend the news, as it seeks

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to reduce the presence of political and
news content on its platform. After years

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of the platform being criticized for its
handling of misinformation and polarisation of parextimum news

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audiences, it seeks the Express technology
news podcast