‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban(www.theguardian.com)

posted 1 year ago

floofloof@lemmy.ca

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pixxelkick@lemmy.world

69 points

1 year ago

Crazy thought, wild idea, hear me out…

What if people stopped getting their news from Facebook

Only people who are mad are the lazy people who seriously cant be assed to actually read the news and want it spoon fed to them in the form of clickbait headlines shared by anti-vax aunt suzy

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lexcyn@lemmy.ca

1 point

1 year ago

This. Good riddance, I say

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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca

7 points

1 year ago

Is getting news from Facebook any different from getting news from reddit? Does reddit need to pay the same tax?

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Strangle@lemmy.world

4 points

1 year ago

It sounds like any link aggregator could be cut off from posting Canadian news links

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Splitdipless@lemmy.ca

5 points

1 year ago

Not yet, but probably. Meta makes money hands over fist, so the government and their friends in the media were hoping to pump them for cash first. They’ll keep looking around for new sources of cash and their attention might eventually land on Reddit.

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blunderworld@lemmy.ca

13 points

1 year ago

I agree completely. Warning for democracy is total click bait, so long as we all make the bare minimum effort to find news elsewhere; its really not that hard for most people.

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aDuckk@lemmy.world

6 points

1 year ago

It’s not us that I’m worried about

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Powerpoint@lemmy.ca

15 points

1 year ago

This is the best possible outcome. The less misinformation coming from meta the better.

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Dearche@lemmy.ca

4 points

1 year ago

I would like to think so, but wouldn’t this just make those who rely on facebook for news only hear from Jim the pogo anarchist and his constant rants about how the Jovian lizards are making everybody stupid drones with their vaxx rays?

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