Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers
This is good news, I think fb will lose more than the Canadian news publishers by doing this
So happy for Canada.
Please do this in America too.
Meta had said links to news articles make up less than 3% of the content on its users’ feed and argued that news lacked economic value.
Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, had said in May that such an argument was flawed and “dangerous to our democracy, to our economy”.
I can believe it. My feed barely contains anyone I know or follow. Last time I checked, 31/36 things in my feed were things I never asked to see. Facebook is like watching network TV except it’s only commercials and every fifteen minutes they take a break and let you know how a friend is doing.
I don’t go there very often.
It can’t be a flawed argument if it reflects reality. So if we accept Meta’s information to be accurate, then they’re just stating a fact. FB users don’t care about news articles, so attempts to wring money out of a third party isn’t going to work, as we can see here.
I’ve always been dubious of the “you should pay us to send us traffic” stance that news organizations seem to take every 5 or so years. It never works out.
good riddance
Boycott greedy, unethical Zuckerberg #DeleteFacebook #BoycottBillionaires
I did! I can only delete it once.
Great stuff, then :)
People get news from meta? They should cancel all news access
