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Good. You're not supposed to go to Facebook to be informed.
What do you mean? The same people who get "news" from Facebook will still get "news" from Facebook. It will just no longer involve any actual media companies. Think blogger, pseudo-news and AI generated content - fake news gonna fake.
Also American news
No American or international news either, says Meta
https://apple.news/A5nT7dG6fQFyBF5H4MlZjOA
Well that's a bit of a relief at least
And they'll have to go to actual sources to fact check.
Bold of you to assume that fact checking is even in the repertoire of the chud brained
My point is with this legislation we effectively removed news outlets from the "source pool", and all the remaining sources you can rely on Facebook is the questionable ones.
That's right, you're supposed to go down to the local coffee shop to find out what is going on.
What did I do now? Does McDonald's have news I can read?
They sure do. Did you know there will be new toys in the happy meal soon?