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I suppose both Facebook and the news sites benefit from the linking. The news site benefits from the traffic and Facebook for having interesting content to show
by thomasahle 3y ago
I suppose both Facebook and the news sites benefit from the linking. The news site benefits from the traffic and Facebook for having interesting content to show their users.
This law seems more about negotiating how much of the pie each part gets.
- chongli 3y agoFacebook doesn't really have any shortage of content to show to users though. Users generate their own content and the feed algorithm scoops it up and displays it. If Facebook banned all news links tomorrow most users wouldn't notice but the news sites definitely would!
- thomasahle 3y agoFacebook has been suffering from users leaving the platform for a while. And even if removing news leads to just a 1% drop in user time spent on the platform, it's a lot of money lost. Of course removing news could also make it a nicer place to be, so maybe it'll increase user engagement. Who knows.
- chongli 3y agoI'm biased. I'm the type of person who unfollows their friends for posting too much news/politics/outrage material. I've curated my Facebook feed to be mostly about things I'm interested in; hobbies and the like. I would actually celebrate if Facebook blocked all news. I also pretty thoroughly detest most of the news media in Canada. It's become far too politicized, and it strictly presents one side of the political spectrum but not in a good way. It tries to take some pretty radical ideas and normalize them, trying to pass them off as mainstream. It also happens to be pretty uncritical of the big media corporations in Canada, not wanting to bite the hand that feeds it. It doesn't seem like a coincidence that Canadians pay some of the highest rates in the world for wireless and internet access.