Facebook increased the visibility of local news outlets in the News Feed in an apparent attempt to help fight fake news and to win pr points during the #DeleteFacebook movement and the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal. The announcement was made on March 26th, 2018 but no definitive date was set on when this update would go live.
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- Facebook Newsroom: More Local News on Facebook, Globally
- Time.com: Your Facebook Feed Is About to Have Much More Local News