I’ve worked in news media for a long-time, and been watching this play out in Australia and now Canada. Publishers are hurting and facing many challenges to st

I’ve worked in news media for a long-time, and been watching this play out in Australia and now Canada. Publishers are hurting and facing many challenges to staying afloat. However, this idea that FB (or anyone) should pay for linking news content is idiotic. Publishers benefitted hugely and we actively worked on pushing out content to platforms like FB to generate traffic (and therefore ad-impressions). Like many, it feels weird to be supporting FB’s position but here we are. (Pardon typos, Mobile)