Facebook tightens its grip on news

May 13, 2015, 05:54 PM

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Facebook is teaming up with nine news publishers, including the BBC, the New York Times and NBC, to allow them to publish stories directly on Facebook's mobile news feeds. The new feature, called Instant Articles, is said to load stories up to ten times faster. We talk to Matthew Ingram, senior writer at Fortune magazine, about whether Facebook or the publishers stand to gain the most from this latest development. Picture: Getty Images