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Who controls the Pacific's communications? - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre (opens the original)
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The Pacific has a communications problem that extends well beyond social media. The region covers almost one-third of the Earth’s surface, with small populations scattered across vast distances. Individually, Pacific Island countries have limited global economic and political influence. For these countries, reliable communications are both critical and difficult to control. At both ends of the system through which information travels, Pacific countries are increasingly dependent on infrastructur
Are social media algorithms killing Pacific news? — Part 1 - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre (opens the original)
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Facebook is strangling Pacific journalism, with some news organisations losing up to 70% of their audience almost overnight. The sudden falls have hit The Pacific Newsroom, the Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation (VBTC) and the Solomon Islands-based Melanesian News Network, raising fears that changes to Meta’s algorithms are pushing verified news out of Facebook feeds. The Pacific Newsroom recorded a 70% fall in Facebook views. Melanesian News Network founder and editor Dorothy Wickh
Are social media algorithms killing Pacific news? — Part 2 - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre (opens the original)
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As demonstrated in the previous article in this two-part series, Pacific publishers have seen sharp, unexplained falls in their Facebook reach, at a time when much of the region depends on the platform for news, official information and emergency alerts. The question is why the Pacific is so exposed, and what can be done about it. Commercial estimates based on Meta’s advertising data put Papua New Guinea’s Facebook audience at about 1.5 million in late 2025, according to DataReportal’s Digital 2
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