Meta is ending its deals to pay for Australian news content. This is how it could change your Facebook and Instagram feeds
Meta is ending its deals to pay for Australian news content. This is how it could change your Facebook and Instagram feeds
A battle is brewing between the government and Meta after the tech giant announced it would no longer pay Australian news publishers for content that appears on its platform. This is what it could mean for your Facebook and Instagram feeds.
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Sorry but what you're describing is 100% not what this is about. There's a case to be made for some sort of action being made by Facebook to stop freebooting (RIP HI), but it's completely irrelevant to what's going on here.
This is about links directly to news articles and the claim that Facebook and Google should have to pay for the right to link to a news organisation. News orgs couch this in language like saying Facebook "uses" their content, but this is a deliberate mischaracterisation.
Here's a brilliant article about what it is and why it's so dumb.
Freebooting of news article is distinctly what this is about. Content creators losing clicks, impressions, and ad revenue due to Metas methodology.
People can have a whinge "it's news corp so fugg them" but just because something hurts something you don't like doesn't make it okay.
No, it's not. Did you read this article? Did you read earlier articles around the time that the law this article is referencing was first being discussed & came into effect? Did you read Mike Masnick's article linked in my earlier comment?
This is about Australia's link tax, the News Media Bargaining Code. It's got everything to do with requiring Facebook and Google to pay companies for sending them traffic, and nothing whatsoever to do with freebooting.
edit: for what it's worth, this isn't just News Corp. It was most heavily pushed in its earliest stages by News Corp and other right-wing media, but the Guardian, ABC, and SBS also supported this. That doesn't make it right. It just serves to further prove how traditional media fundamentally misunderstands how technology works.
You literally don't understand what the discussion is about
You literally don't understand what the discussion is about