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
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.
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?
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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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
This. Good riddance, I say
Is getting news from Facebook any different from getting news from reddit? Does reddit need to pay the same tax?
It sounds like any link aggregator could be cut off from posting Canadian news links
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.
This is the best possible outcome. The less misinformation coming from meta the better.
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?
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.
It’s not us that I’m worried about