A growing backlash on web comments

Alexis Sobel Fitts discusses why increasing numbers of news web sitesPacific Standard, the Huffington Post, the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times — are doing away with comments or making them less prominent: "When Popular Science did it first, in September 2013, the internet response was mostly negative or incredulous. But it’s becoming increasingly commonplace as more discussion gets outsourced to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other parts of the social Web."

January 6, 2015

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