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Re:Tim Berners-Lee says Australian media pay law would make ... by stephen_g on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:53AM (#26193763)
That’s a point I’ve been making in Australia too. And now the media orgs are freaking out about losing the referrals from Facebook, but still trying to go on the false narrative that Google and Facebook make huge amounts of money “stealing news content”.

Just before, I saw one reporter try to claim that social media sites allow users to bypass paywalls, but they never have! Facebook never showed actual article content here, just link, title and maybe a thumbnail...

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