Facebook is gambling Australia can't do without it. What if we prove them wrong

Re:Facebook is gambling Australia can't do without it. What ... by killingtime74 on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:30AM (#26192916)

I’m Australian. Since this change I have not talked to a single person who was affected...no one uses Facebook to get their news anymore. Few even check Facebook

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Re:Facebook is gambling Australia can't do without it. What ... by simonh on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:45AM (#26193044)

And yet traffic to news sites in Australia have taken a painful hit, 13% of domestic traffic and 30% of overseas views. It may not seem all that massive, but for many news orgs on the edge that's their whole profit margin gone, if they have one.

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Re:Facebook is gambling Australia can't do without it. What ... by brokenmachine on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:11AM (#26193311)

Shouldn't those news orgs be thankful that evil Facebook isn't stealing all their valuable news stories anymore?

Wasn't the whole point of this that Facebook was supposedly making so much money off the backs of all that valuable content? Seems it wasn't all that valuable after all.

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Re:Facebook is gambling Australia can't do without it. What ... by foobar33333 on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:46PM (#26198436)

We live in a bubble. I'm not sure I interact with anyone who even uses facebook at all. But I know I am in the minority.

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