Killing Website Comment Sections Wasn't The Brilliant Move Many Newsroom Leaders Assumed

So for years we pointed out how the trend of news websites killing off their comment section (usually because they were too cheap or lazy to creatively manage them) was counterproductive. One, it killed off a lot of local, community value and two, it outsourced comments to facebook.
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