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I’d actually guess it’s the opposite. Why pay for a news subscription when you can get “news” for free on Facebook and the like.

> Why pay for a news subscription when you can get “news” for free on Facebook and the like.

Did you miss the whole Facebook "fake news" thing last year?

That’s why I put news in quotation marks, I actually have a couple news subscriptions and no Facebook account.