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Meta States the Obvious: Users Don’t Use Their Services for News

Meta has had a piece published on Medium explaining that news is not a driver for their platforms success.

Faced with a looming pullout of Meta, Rod Sims pushes his nonsense talking points as if it’s going to make a difference.

Reports are suggesting that Canadian and Australian officials are going to meet after Meta pulled out. It’s unclear what they can accomplish, though.

The Australian government is witnessing their link tax crash and burn, so there’s a push to include other platforms.

A recent decision by Meta to not renew their link tax ransom payments in Australia has the media their hitting the panic button.

The pullout of Meta is predictably not exclusive to Canada. Now, it looks like news links will be dropped in Australia as well.

By Drew Wilson / November 27, 2023 / Copyright

A piece in the Globe and Mail speculates that the reason why the Online News Act is failing is because it’s not like Australia enough.

Australia’s News Bargaining Code was supposed to “save” journalism. There’s a growing body of evidence to say it did no such thing.

Bill C-18 supporters love to look to Australia to say what the benefits link taxes are. They probably don’t want to talk about the waves

It seems that the cost of paying for news links has gotten way too high for Facebook, and removing news links is now an option.

1) The billionaires are not the ones scraping the Internet. The machines they have are the ones doing it, and…

Your wealth status, generally speaking, does not change how the law is applied, only your effectiveness of fighting in court…

“Reading a copyrighted work does not give rise to a copyright violation.” The machines don’t read. They are not people.…