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Facebook's Australian news blackout is a PR disaster

• peapicker 6y ago
  If news distribution depends on facebook in a country, then everyone is screwed.
  • uberman 6y ago
    I'm not arguing your point, but rather highlighting that the majority of Americans get their news from social media, Facebook being the largest component of that: https://www.journalism.org/2021/01/12/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-in-2020/ https://www.journalism.org/2021/01/12/news-use-across-social...
• draw_down 6y ago
  Everyone loves the free market, until market actors do market actor things. Same with GDPR -- "hey wait a second, you're not allowed to decide you'd just rather not deal with our new law!!" Ahh well, it is the Guardian after all.
• peapicker 6y ago
  Another way to look at it, as I see it, this would certainly make Facebook better for their product (users) while making it worse for their actual customers (those who want the user's data).