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They already did this with Canada. Meta decided to stop showing news links in Canada. [1] Presumably, it would choose the same thing here. [1] https://www.fa

• buellerbueller 5mo ago
  Yes, meta took the salt-the-earth approach. Rather then allow users to post links and meta not summarize the content, meta is now destroying its own value for Canadians. These hypercorps and their CEOs act like giant fucking children, and rather than abide by a ruling being told to play fair, they just decide to take their ball and go home. Good riddance. The sooner social media dies, the better off humanity will be.
• nradov 5mo ago
  Yes, that was a great move. I wish Meta would do the same in all countries. I don't go to Facebook to read news.
  • throw0101c 5mo ago
    > Yes, that was a great move. I wish Meta would do the same in all countries. I don't go to Facebook to read news. Lots of news organization saw their traffic drop though, and this reduced revenues. (Not judging either way, just noting some effects.)
• josefx 5mo ago
  I am not a facebook user, but going by that post they seem to go a step further and outright block any links pointing to news sites. The article mentions some provisions in the Italian law that prohibit restricting visiblity of the news sites, at least during negotiations, so that kind of salted earth move could backfire .