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Or fighting a legal battle (which they will hopefully fight and win), or leaving the jurisdiction and then saying "good luck with that, let's find out how much
by JoshTriplett 3y ago
Or fighting a legal battle (which they will hopefully fight and win), or leaving the jurisdiction and then saying "good luck with that, let's find out how much of your companies' revenue we were driving".
- intrasight 3y agoIf they just showed the title and the link - like they used to - they it would drive revenue. But because they show a synopsis of the news, people very often don't click the link.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoThis doesn't happen automatically, it's something websites have to set up: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/cards/overview/abouts-cards https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/c...
- michaelmior 3y agoI'm skeptical that such explicit summaries are the only thing social networks display. Even if that is currently the case, it would be relatively trivial for a company the size of Meta to generate and show their own summary.
- TimPC 3y agoIt might be technically simple but it’s probably legally complicated to write a summarizer that doesn’t violate copyright. Using data they are explicitly given permission to use by the definition of the field it’s in is quite different though.
- cheriot 3y agoThis is the way it's always worked. News orgs are asking social media companies to display the summary and image https://css-tricks.com/essential-meta-tags-social-media/ https://css-tricks.com/essential-meta-tags-social-media/ They're not generating anything
- cpncrunch 3y agoGoogle News does just show the title.
- intrasight 3y agoNo, it also has the first ~140 characters of the article.
- matheusmoreira 3y ago> good luck with that, let's find out how much of your companies' revenue we were driving I really wish these big techs would do that to Brazil. They made enemies of the current administration when they opposed their censorship laws.