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Re:Facebook Australia: PM Scott Morrison 'will not be intimi... by elyobo on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:11AM (#26178474)
They can choose to block that, even specifically for Facebook and Google while leaving others alone, just by messing with their robots settings.

If you post a link to content that is being excluded using robots.txt you'll get a link and no full headline, no lead in sentence, no picture - those are the things that the news orgs have gone out of their way to provide to Facebook.

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Re:Facebook Australia: PM Scott Morrison 'will not be intimi... by Nursie on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:29AM (#26178606)
I guess it's a commercial reality they all have to do it or none of them can - they can't afford to block FB as so many people get their news that way, so either they get paid by FB or the whole platform goes news-free, and either of those new situations works better for them.

I guess it's a race to the bottom. AN individual org is faced with the choice to give their content to fb for nothing or lose readership.

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