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Another kind of blackout in Oz - sekker - 02-20-2021
No news in or out of Australia via facebook.
If you wanted to see how much power that platform has, just follow this down under.
Sounds like the law facebook is protesting is a bad document. But if they wanted to hide their power, this was probably not the way to go about it.
As someone who does not use facebook, I have no idea how disruptive this has been.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/2/20/22291425/facebook-australia-murdoch-law
Re: Another kind of blackout in Oz - Ted King - 02-20-2021
Seems like there is a synergy between the internet platform corporate giants and news corporations but the platforms are getting too much of the value created. So it seems fair for the news corporations to get a bigger share but I sure don't want large corporate news organizations to like Murdock's to be able to swing deals that smaller news organizations can't. I don't know how that it would be accomplished, though.
I like this from the article cited in the OP:
But one Recode reader had a different view: He hoped people would seek the news out on their own, rather than only reading whatever headlines were shared by friends.
“I would be much more comfortable if all Aussies got their news direct from the source,” he said. “I think this would be best for quality journalism and the strength of our democracy.”
It looks like some Australians are trying to do just that: The Australian Broadcast Company’s app was the most downloaded app in Australia’s App Store in the days following the ban.
More people going straight to the source is probably good thing. But I do wonder if such a trend might make it harder for people to find out about news sources they don't already know much about.
Re: Another kind of blackout in Oz - Ted King - 02-20-2021
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Re: Another kind of blackout in Oz - mrbigstuff - 02-20-2021
It would be great if this were to become the impetus for a new (and better!) social media platform. Kinda doubt it, though.
Re: Another kind of blackout in Oz - SteveG - 02-20-2021
Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22291406/abc-news-app-top-charts-facebook-ban-australia
Facebook’s ban dramatically shrunk the audience for some Australian news outlets, sending traffic down 93 percent the day after the ban was put in place, according to NiemanLab. But ABC News responded by adding a banner to its home page. “Missing our news on Facebook? — Get the latest news and live notifications with the ABC News app,” it reads. Since then, the app has risen from the high 400s to its current spot at No. 2.
Re: Another kind of blackout in Oz - sekker - 02-21-2021
So long as they don't ban MRF, we are good here!
Re: Another kind of blackout in Oz - Filliam H. Muffman - 02-21-2021
Too bad Faecesbook won't blackout links to fake news sites.
Re: Another kind of blackout in Oz - sekker - 02-21-2021
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Too bad Faecesbook won't blackout links to fake news sites.
Indeed. They make a lot of advertising $$ off such viral referrals.