We appear to be standing our ground!

Not my preferred choice of source but NatPo has more detail than some of the alternatives I saw. It includes some numbers as well as comments about the difference between Meta’s and Google’s approaches. Hint: they’re not the same, so there’s already cracks in the effort to make an example out of Canada.

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    1 year ago

    Do you think news just didn’t exist before Google/Meta?

    We used to pay for news papers to get the news, or listen to TV and the Radio with Ads and the CBC was well funded and respected.

    I don’t like the change, but it’ll probably help maintain journalism quality

    I am not sure pumping more money in will help with that. I think some form of accountability for the style (Neutral and balanced) / facts / quality of corrections needs to be tied to money.

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      It’s not pumping more money so much as it is changing the mechanism of delivery. If you’re not dependent on click through rates and etc. you can afford less editorialized content

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        That’s a great fucking point - this status quo is driving the rage baiting to a different level!