Do you post and read news on Facebook and Instagram? Get ready for a 'troubling' change to your feeds
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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.
  • @[email protected]
    1•8 months ago

    Yes - there’s a problem. Why is Meta the company that should fix it? They are not, and never have been, a news platform.

    Meta is all about letting people communicate with each other. Obviously sharing news is one use case for that, but it’s not even close to the primary one.

    Also as an Australian… virtually all of the local reporting is behind a paywall. So it literally can’t be shared on social networks (not legally anyway - any distribution there would be copyright infringement).

    Why should Meta pay for content that their users can’t even access? It’s ridiculous.

    • ZagorathOPEnglish
      3•8 months ago

      Also as an Australian… virtually all of the local reporting is behind a paywall

      Eh, hardly. News corp is, but their “reporting” is trash anyway.

      The former Fairfax sites are all behind a soft paywall (easily bypassed by clearing cookies/opening in Incognito).

      But our best media, sites like the ABC, the Conversation, the Guardian, are all completely paywall-less.