Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen
Facebook pulling a bait and switch for newspapers that forces them to pay to reach an audience they used to reach for free (organic reach)?  This has only happened repeatedly in the history of facebook.Facebook is like a game where the difficulty rises after you've had a taste of success.  And by difficulty I mean you have to pay to reach your previous levels of success.Facebook did this for those first games (e.g. Farmville), then for pages (remember the idea of advertizing for likes to raise the visibility of your page in the news feed? https://www.matthewbarby.com/facebook-likes-dont-matter/), now for newspapers.  All in the service of "keeping the news feed clean/relevant for users", but really it is just effective monetization of the attention of Facebook's users.Never become dependent on Facebook's feebies in any way, because you will soon be paying for them.  But I figure everyone already knew this strategy of Zuck's Facebook -- it is nothing new, it is "The Strategy" over there.