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I'd assume there are knock on effects. The people that did get news via FB no longer share it because they aren't getting it. So, even people that don't use FB
by nox101 2y ago
I'd assume there are knock on effects. The people that did get news via FB no longer share it because they aren't getting it. So, even people that don't use FB become less informed. Like if one member of a family used to read news via FB and share some of it with the rest of the family.
Note: I'm not saying whether that result is good or bad I'm only saying that not being aware of the ban doesn't mean nothing has been lost.
- cwillu 2y agoI strongly suspect that such people have simply moved to other sources, and more importantly, the statistics on who was reading news was _strongly_ biased by the ease with which that information could be tracked. If 1% of the population was responsible for seeking out interesting news and sharing them, and 4% was reading what was being directly provided to them, and then the ability to see what that 4% is reading disappeared, it would look like an 80+% reduction in people reading the news, even though all that happened was that the sharing is now occurring in an illegible fashion.