Although the most popular social networking site in the world, Facebook, is known for its free-market economic model, a new press report revealed that the site plans later this year to test the service of providing paid news content via subscription.
A new press release from the site "The Street," the US quoted a senior official of Facebook, "Campbell Brown," head of news partnerships in the company, that Facebook intends to launch a new service paid to enable users to gain access the news content through the subscription .
Campbell Brown, speaking on the sidelines of the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit, said that the new step, which will be integrated into Instant Articles, comes in particular to help news sites that rely on social networking site Facebook to promote their content and earn additional profits .
Users will have to sign up if they want to, after reading 10 articles on the instant messaging service, where they will be directed to a special page. The new service test will start in October.