The short version

Lucia Moses predicted on March 21, 2018: “Publishers that bet everything on Facebook's pivot to video are now laying off video teams en masse — the strategy was built on metrics Facebook itself later admitted were inflated.” Verdict: Called it. Validated. The "pivot to video" became the canonical cautionary tale of platform-dependence; Facebook settled an inflated-metrics suit and dozens of…

Prediction by

Lucia Moses

On March 21, 2018

“Publishers that bet everything on Facebook's pivot to video are now laying off video teams en masse — the strategy was built on metrics Facebook itself later admitted were inflated.”

Follow-up

Validated. The "pivot to video" became the canonical cautionary tale of platform-dependence; Facebook settled an inflated-metrics suit and dozens of publishers (Mic, MTV News, Vice video) collapsed their video desks.

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