I think the headline mischaracterizes the intent of the ban. It didn’t fail to dent Facebook usage. The ban succeeded, showing no reduction in Facebook traffic despite reducing access to content.
It wasn’t a ban. It was a tax designed to funnel money into the media companies that own our politicians.
It failed spectacularly because it shows that Canadians don’t visit Facebook for news coverage, and that Meta was 100% correct to not pay for access to content that its users don’t care about.
I agree that the tax was designed to funnel money into the media oligopoly to which our politicians are beholden.
But like the headline, you are conflating the tax with the ban. They aren’t two sides of the same coin, the ban (or maybe more accurately boycott) is a reaction to the tax.
Was it a tax? I thought the law simply required third parties to actually pay for reproducing the work of news outlets? Basically paying for paid work, rather than just stealing it?
You’re right I was duped by Google.
It was a ban on Meta’s side. Of course, not with an intent to dent their own user’s usage. That part does not logically follow.
The headline (and probably the article) was written by machine, is all. That has been standard practice in the news business for many years now. Just yet another hallucination that we have come to know and love.
Reuters bad headline fails to dent click-through ratio
People does not go on FB to read news!!! It’s perfectly normal that it has no impact.
I go to Facebook nowadays for 3 reasons:
A) Post memes to give my friends a smile or chuckle.
B) Check on a group or two (50% of the time related to memes also lol.
C) Someone messaged me.If I want news, I go the same places I’ve already been using for 20+ years and it aint Facebook.
That was never the goal.
So, no impact on Facebook. What about the news agencies? Are they losing ad revenue because of fewer eyeballs on their content?
Real news isn’t what gets circulated on Facebook, so who cares.
What? What is real news then? Meta is also Instagram btw
Apparently, people have been sharing Canadian news links, thus the controversy.
You know what would dent Facebook usage?
Banning all links to Facebook in Canada.
I’d be behind that.
This law is more than just paying news corporations isn’t it? I remember reading about how there were some stipulations in there to stop companies from Cherry picking the articles that benefit them the most, while also hiding anything critical of themselves.
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