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I don't get it. People were content only reading headlines before. They couldn't be bothered to click the link and read the articles. I get why that's a proble

I don't get it. People were content only reading headlines before. They couldn't be bothered to click the link and read the articles. I get why that's a problem. But now that the users aren't even being given links... the expectation is that users will go out of their way to find and read those articles? Is their strategy litterally just playing hard to get?

monkeywork 4y ago
What's not to get? The news company is in the biz of making money for themselves not for facebook. People not clicking the links and reading the articles weren't generating income for them (nor were they getting informed in any meaningful way) however they were enriching another platform (facebook). So now the users aren't being given links, which they weren't really clicking to begin with, so the news company isn't losing any significant money but at least their work (articles) aren't being used to enrich facebook. Thier strategy is that the users will eventually want news from somewhere and either they will go to the source, or they will grow dissatisfied with facebook since they don't show news anymore and facebook may pay for the content to keep their own users happy. it's a minimal risk proposition for the media companies.
- CivBase 4y ago
  Except Facebook will still show news. Just not news articles from Canadian outlets. Unless the plan is to turn CBC readers into BBC readers, I still don't see how this is supposed to work out. Is Canadian news so superior that a significant portion users who were previously content with Facebook's news feed will become so dissatisfied with it that they'll leave?
  - chongli 4y ago
    Is Canadian news so superior that a significant portion users who were previously content with Facebook's news feed will become so dissatisfied with it that they'll leave? No. We just have a government that is captured by the media companies. We pay some of the highest fees in the world for internet and phone plans. Those providers happen to be the same media companies [1] [2] pushing for this crap legislation because they own all the newspapers and sports channels. Deep down, they would love to just block Google and Facebook for Canadians, but they know that’s not possible. So now they’re going to use their legislative cronies to ram this law through the House of Commons. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Media [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Communications
tcmart14 4y ago
I mean, it depends on how they play their cards, it could work. "Come see the journal articles that CNN, Fox and the BBC don't want you to see! So much so they stopped allowing them on the social media sites." Enough dumb people fall for that marketing trick.

monkeywork 4y ago

What's not to get? The news company is in the biz of making money for themselves not for facebook. People not clicking the links and reading the articles weren't generating income for them (nor were they getting informed in any meaningful way) however they were enriching another platform (facebook). So now the users aren't being given links, which they weren't really clicking to begin with, so the news company isn't losing any significant money but at least their work (articles) aren't being used to enrich facebook. Thier strategy is that the users will eventually want news from somewhere and either they will go to the source, or they will grow dissatisfied with facebook since they don't show news anymore and facebook may pay for the content to keep their own users happy. it's a minimal risk proposition for the media companies.

CivBase 4y ago
Except Facebook will still show news. Just not news articles from Canadian outlets. Unless the plan is to turn CBC readers into BBC readers, I still don't see how this is supposed to work out. Is Canadian news so superior that a significant portion users who were previously content with Facebook's news feed will become so dissatisfied with it that they'll leave?
- chongli 4y ago
  Is Canadian news so superior that a significant portion users who were previously content with Facebook's news feed will become so dissatisfied with it that they'll leave? No. We just have a government that is captured by the media companies. We pay some of the highest fees in the world for internet and phone plans. Those providers happen to be the same media companies [1] [2] pushing for this crap legislation because they own all the newspapers and sports channels. Deep down, they would love to just block Google and Facebook for Canadians, but they know that’s not possible. So now they’re going to use their legislative cronies to ram this law through the House of Commons. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Media [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Communications

tcmart14 4y ago

I mean, it depends on how they play their cards, it could work. "Come see the journal articles that CNN, Fox and the BBC don't want you to see! So much so they stopped allowing them on the social media sites." Enough dumb people fall for that marketing trick.