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Facebook will display a link preview in the news feed, which will generally select some thumbnail and show the article headline and some text snippet, maybe the
by dodobirdlord 7y ago
Facebook will display a link preview in the news feed, which will generally select some thumbnail and show the article headline and some text snippet, maybe the first sentence or two. The argument goes that by doing this, Facebook is monetizing the content of the link owner, and if people only read the headlines and text snippets and never click the link (frequently true), Facebook ends up with all of the ad revenue.
At least, this is the argument used by Spain against Google News, causing Google to stop linking to Spanish news sites.
https://louisem.com/3838/facebook-link-thumbnail-image-sizes https://louisem.com/3838/facebook-link-thumbnail-image-sizes
- wutbrodo 7y ago> if people only read the headlines and text snippets and never click the link (frequently true), Facebook ends up with all of the ad revenue. No, you have this backwards; snippets don't leech revenue away from news orgs, they enhance their revenue. There have been cases in the past where Google was ordered to stop displaying snippets of certain sites without paying, and media companies immediately started whining about the sharp traffic declines. Complaints about the copyright of snippets is a fig leaf for protection money of the sort they're demanding once again.