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They can choose to block that, even specifically for Facebook and Google while leaving others alone, just by messing with their robots settings. If you post a
by elyobo 6y ago
They can choose to block that, even specifically for Facebook and Google while leaving others alone, just by messing with their robots settings.
If you post a link to content that is being excluded using robots.txt you'll get a link and no full headline, no lead in sentence, no picture - those are the things that the news orgs have gone out of their way to provide to Facebook.
- Nursie 6y agoI guess it's a commercial reality they all have to do it or none of them can - they can't afford to block FB as so many people get their news that way, so either they get paid by FB or the whole platform goes news-free, and either of those new situations works better for them. I guess it's a race to the bottom. AN individual org is faced with the choice to give their content to fb for nothing or lose readership.