Zuckerberg: News Articles Must Load Faster

The Zuck says 10 seconds is too long.

In a Facebook question and answer session, Mark Zuckerberg addressed the future of news reporting. In short, he said everything must be faster.

The Facebook boss said that overall, consumers feel that reading news articles is too slow. “If you’re using our mobile app and you tap on a photo, it typically loads immediately,” wrote Zuckerberg. “But if you tap on a news link, since that content isn’t stored on Facebook and you have to download it from elsewhere, it can take 10 plus seconds to load.

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