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Meta is ending its deals to pay for Australian news content. This is how it could change your Facebook and Instagram feeds (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] pendulum_@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

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.

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