Meta to Cut Off Support for Facebook Instant Articles in April 2023

The format debuted in May 2015 as a way for publishers to provide content with faster load times, rich media

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Then-Facebook introduced Instant Articles in May 2015 with the aim of letting publishers on its platform provide users with content that boasted faster load times and more rich media. Now-Meta said Friday that support for Instant Articles will be no more as of mid-April 2023.

The demise of Instant Articles continues the trend by Meta of scrapping its investments in news content on its platform, as the company said in late July that it would no longer pay for content aggregated for its News tab in order to reallocate resources to artificial-intelligence-based video experiences.

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