• spare_muppets@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The beaver is Canada which passed a law required the big Tech companies pay Canadian news companies for content they post on their platforms and receive ad revenue from. Facebook and Google are acting all butt hurt and refusing to post news content in Canada instead of paying for it.

    • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      But. They get free clicks from social media. How does social media get any ad revenue from them? Social media get a title and a synopis maybe.

      How is it not mutually benificial?