Opinion | Making good on Facebook's threat to Australia | chrizap
We would know that if it’s on Facebook it would be for fun, for friends, and easily fake.Dividing information this way would help us build our understanding of the world in a new digital age.
The public would adapt and stop looking for news on Facebook. Something similar happened in 2014 when, after Spain passed a law requiring Google to pay a licence for the news it aggregated on its site.yet, the web traffic to the Spanish news sites mostly survived, analysis shows. “Social media incentivises users to engage with ‘hot’ and emotional topics,” says David Golumbia, Associate Professor in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, who has studied the ideology of computing.
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