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Re:Facebook rejects calls to share advertising revenue with ... by Closi on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:09AM (#23524635)
I think one argument is that the news papers do the recording, then if you share a link Facebook scrapes it, takes the image and puts it on their site (regardless of copyright/licensing status) and takes the news headline.

Most users then don’t click through, but the content is stolen to fill up facebooks timeline.

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Re:Facebook rejects calls to share advertising revenue with ... by dmortin on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:31AM (#23524756)
You can stop Facebook scraping your site via robots.txt, so the control is at the publisher. If FB crawler is blocked then it can't scrape anything and only the link is posted.
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