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Friday, March 15, 2024

Meta threatens to strip news stories from Facebook, Instagram users in Illinois

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, is threatening to pull news content off its platforms if Illinois passes a bill that would require it pay news outlets for sharing links to their articles. 

Sen. Steve Stadelman (D-Rockford) introduced the Journalism Preservation Act (SB3591), which would require Meta, Google, and other social media companies to pay news outlets a usage fee for each time a publisher’s content is displayed to Illinois users.
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11 comments:

  1. MikeyMarch 15, 2024 at 3:31 PM

    Gi ahead.

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  2. MikeyMarch 15, 2024 at 3:47 PM

    I meant to say "go ahead"

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  3. Jo-Anne's RamblingsMarch 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM

    They threaten to do this or that but don't do jack shit about the scammers all over their damn site

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  4. AnonymousMarch 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM

    News on Facebook? That's an oxymoron...

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  5. Henk VandenberghMarch 15, 2024 at 4:34 PM

    All that honest news Facebook is posting?

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  6. ABEMarch 15, 2024 at 5:13 PM

    I'm confused - and five beers in. But, why would content providers (news outlets) not be happy with links to their articles being on Facebook? It drives clicks. Isn't that what they all want?

    As long as the entire article isn't on Facebook, I would imagine a link to the article would be golden.

    BTW, Fuck Facebook.

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  7. AnonymousMarch 15, 2024 at 5:28 PM

    There is conflicting statements. It says news content from news outlets. I did think there is news content, only opinion pieces and lies. So they should be good to publish any link.

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  8. Alex MartinezMarch 15, 2024 at 6:08 PM

    I stopped my fb account during the stolen election. Friends and family say aren’t you over that? Or you really don’t believe that cause Trump will still go to Prison. I’m like eventually We the People will wind up there if evil has its way. What a mess.

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  9. AnonymousMarch 15, 2024 at 8:12 PM

    Sen. Steve Stadelman shills for the news media. The asswipe used to be a shitty TV reporter. He's just padding his future as a Dem. in a Rep district. ie,,,Adam Kinzinger

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  10. AnonymousMarch 15, 2024 at 9:10 PM

    Well, Illinois did win me and my wife a few hundred dollars each a couple years ago in a class action suit for privacy violations.

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