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  • Meta kills Facebook news in US and AU

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 1 14:24:17 2024
    From the «zuck sucks» department:
    Feed: The Register
    Title: Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia
    Author: Simon Sharwood
    Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:45:07 -0500
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/01/facebook_news_killed_usa_australia/

    So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020

    Meta has killed its Facebook news service in the United States and Australia.…

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 1 09:37:22 2024
    On 01 Mar 2024 14:24:17 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020 >Meta has killed its Facebook news service in the United States and Australia...

    Also: "Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles"

    Google/Meta have to pay them news outlets for their content....so...

    Imho, them news outlets were getting a free lunch from Google/Meta. I
    don't mind paying a penny or two for a single legit news article, but
    there is not a means for doing this.

    On another note, Fox news is bad at grabbing other news-organizations' articles, and then creating their article based upon these others.

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