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I'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

I'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 ago
It 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 ago
This 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