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Comment by iso1631 | Hacker News Reader

Why do they show Italian news before?

Because it makes them money.

Canada passed a similar bill a few years ago causing meta to stop showing Canadian news content on their platforms. It didn’t really impact them financially or user wise. So the same thing will probably happen in Italy.

Canadian news might've been easier to replace with American news outlets due to the deep ties between the two and the shared language. I doubt this would be the case for Italian news.

All news links are blocked on FB in Canada, including American sources

They also removed the news tab in the US. The news organizations seem dependent on social media, but the reverse does not appear true.

Soon they can only show US news. Then they become irrelevant to the rest of the world.

Frankly, the Canadian government needs to come down on them for the misleading and untruthful message that they post when Facebook censors news links.

It is past time that American companies are restrained from acting like boorish American tourists in other countries.

No, ads make them money. Users see the ads because they view their feeds.

It’s been proven in other markets that removing News from the feed doesn’t decrease engagement. Meta will continue to make money, and Italian news sites will see their traffic vanish.

Turns out they’re simply not valuable in the way they used to be, and country after country is learning this

Did Canadian news collapse when Facebook stopped copying their blurbs?

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