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Re:As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse... by AuryGlenz on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:21AM (#37205464)
That’s, of course, assuming that those 10 people would have gone to that specific news site and read that specific story if it wasn’t linked.

Which is, of course, ridiculous. Those news sites are almost certainly gaining visitors from those links, not losing them.

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Re:As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse... by HWR_14 on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:32PM (#37215640)
It assumes that had FB not summarized the article, people would have followed the link in the same location in their feed. Seems fair to me.

You can claim that news sites gain more than they lose. That's a different argument.

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