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I hit my first instance of Meta blocking Canadian news content.
(media.cosocial.ca)
What's going on Canada?
🍁 Meta
🗺️ Provinces / Territories
🏙️ Cities / Regions
🏒 Sports
Hockey
Football (NFL)
unknown
Football (CFL)
unknown
Baseball
unknown
Basketball
unknown
Soccer
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💻 Universities
💵 Finance / Shopping
🗣️ Politics
🍁 Social & Culture
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We disagree on this point, I think the news orgs are the good guys.
Why? Because groups like Meta are profiting from scaping the site without compensation. It's not like Meta is simply showing the headline and thumbnail, they are showing some of the content from the article itself.
Meta's not giving free promotion, they are profiting off of the content of others.
Edit: it looks like the information that Facebook shows is consensual via "Open Graph"
How do you feel about Lemmy bots that summarize articles in the comments?
Issue is the same for the media but there's no advertising revenue for the social media platform, in the end it's still shitty for the content producers.
There's no "gotcha" there.