Digital News Report 2026

The future of news is happening where no one is looking

"In 2026, more news organizations will understand that people don’t always want an article. Sometimes they just want clarity."

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #60

The many interesting things I read in February 2026

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #63

The many interesting things I read in May 2026

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #65

The many interesting things I read in July 2026

Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024

Platforms, especially Facebook, are primary news sources in the US. In its widely criticized "War on News," Meta algorithmically deprioritized news and political content. We use data from 40 news organizations (5,243,302 Facebook posts, 7,875,372,958 user reactions) and 21 non-news pages (396,468 posts; 1,909,088,308 reactions) between January 1, 2016 and February 13, 2025 to examine how these changes influenced news visibility on the platform. Reactions to news declined by 78% between 2021 and 2024 while reactions to non-news pages increased, indicating targeted suppression of news visibility. Low-quality sources were especially suppressed, yet the 2025 end to "War on News" increased user reactions to news, especially low-quality ones. These changes do not reflect decreased news supply, Facebook user base, or interest in news over this period.

Newsrewired

13-14 May 2026 | A conference for innovators in digital publishing

We Don't Have Time Davos Hub – Jan 19, 2026–Jan 23, 2026

Welcome to our digital hub during the World Economic Forum. January 19–23, 2026.

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions - Tim Chambers

Predictions for 2026 include growth forecasts for various social media platforms, advancements in federated technologies, and anticipated shifts in how …

My 2024 thoughts on the state of social media

I see a continued fragmentation of social media as people leave X(Twitter).

2025.21: The Upheaval Coming for the Internet Economy

The best Stratechery content from the week of May 19, 2025, including AI and the future of the web, slam dunks and moonshots at Google, and OpenAI entering the hardware business.

Accelerating dynamics of collective attention

With news pushed to smart phones in real time and social media reactions spreading across the globe in seconds, the public discussion can appear accelerated and temporally fragmented. In longitudinal datasets across various domains, covering multiple decades, we find increasing gradients and shortened periods in the trajectories of how cultural items receive collective attention. Is this the inevitable conclusion of the way information is disseminated and consumed? Our findings support this hypothesis. Using a simple mathematical model of topics competing for finite collective attention, we are able to explain the empirical data remarkably well. Our modeling suggests that the accelerating ups and downs of popular content are driven by increasing production and consumption of content, resulting in a more rapid exhaustion of limited attention resources. In the interplay with competition for novelty, this causes growing turnover rates and individual topics receiving shorter intervals of collective attention.

2026 is the year of social media’s legal reckoning

It’s likely just the beginning.

The 800-Millisecond Problem

A blog about my journey through Mozilla,Open Source Contribution, Virtual,Augmented,Mixed Reality, Security,Hackathon and in general technology.

New_ Public | After the Feed

What happens after the social media feed? A presentation on the future of conversation, community, and social connection, and how AI will affect the everyday lives of billions.

The Attention Forum: October 23/24th 2025

The internet was initially sold to us as a force for connection – a borderless, democratizing set of technologies that would amplify voices, allow us to spread ideas, and strengthen civil society.