https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/15/reuters-america-facebook-to-invest-300-million-to-help-local-news-survive.html > Facebook will invest $300 million over three years in local news globally as it faces blistering criticism over its role in the erosion of the news business worldwide. > The investment in time and money is a significant expansion of a plan to help newsrooms in the U.S. and abroad create and sustain viable business models to survive, the company said on Tuesday.