WILLIAMS — The Northern Arizona Gazette has made the move to MeWe.com. The staff has been using it on a personal level for several months and decided to move the news site from Facebook to the alternate social network MeWe.

There has been some misinformation about MeWe that has circulated. One point is that you have to pay for the service. MeWe is member supported and you can purchase various upgrades to the service. You are not required, however, to purchase membership for one personal page. There is a pop-up that you may see on occasion asking you to upgrade to premium to support the social media site. It carries no other advertising to pay for the service. Premium service costs $4.99 per month if you desire to use it. There are various other offers at the MeWe “store” on the site.

“Facebook just seems to have too much malware, including their own tracking routines,” said Northern Arizona Gazette editor Glen Davis. “My computer gets locked up every time I use it. So I authorized the move to MeWe which runs much smoother. It costs us $1.99 a month for the page versus free on Facebook, but with the censorship on Facebook and the spyware routines, we feel the move is worth it.

“I highly recommend that all of my Facebook friends at least try this alternate platform,” he added.

Northern Arizona Gazette may still use Facebook on occasion, but the main Social Media site will be MeWe. The news organization is also looking into how Parler.com may benefit it.