Facebook Explores Paid Deals for New Publishing Platform

Facebook will soon begin testing partnerships with a small group of independent writers for its new publishing platform, sources tell Axios. The platform, which includes tools for journalists to build actual websites, in addition to newsletters, will be tested with a small group of writers, some of whom Facebook plans to pay to help get the tools off the ground.

The publishing platform, which has yet to be officially named, is free-to-use, and will be integrated with Facebook Pages, sources say.