>when you share an article on facebook, you usually get "the title", a leading picture, and occasionally a summary.
That's the content of news articles. They were scraping content for republication and now they're not.
From Meta: in order to comply with Bill C-18, passed today in Parliament, content from news outlets, including news publishers and broadcasters, will no longer be available to people accessing our platforms in Canada
> Now you'll just get an unprocessed URL. They aren't inserting the bodies of the articles into the feed.
That's how links are supposed to be and reflects what a well functioning internet looks like. I'm not saying that to be a techno-purist. I'm saying it's the most normal, usual and predicable way to handle a link. There's not a thing wrong with it.
> It is like when I hit a paywall site and they tell me what I could get if I just paid for the subscription.
I can't agree. Having 2% less choices isn't similar to having no choice at all.
If Facebook doesn't offer the 50th copy of a news story, you still have 49 other sites that do (as well as the source). If the story is paywalled, your options are ~none.
