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Comment by lokar | Hacker News Reader

I think they should be able to show the link, and like a normal one sentence link text, but not a large snippet, images, etc

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They are displaying the snippet and image the website is giving them for a preview.

But they're also prioritizing news sources with such snippets, which forces publishers to have them or lose traffic to competitors, because Facebook is taking advantage of a dominant position in the market.

That's what they're arguing about, it's literally the same thing that happened with Google news (and was negotiated) years ago.

Are they putting a thumb on the scale to prioritize them, or are users organically deciding that they are more interested in them? The former I agree would be concerning, but I hadn't heard of this happening before and the article doesn't seem to engage in this level of detail.

They only show what the website gives them through opengraph tags. If the site doesn’t want to give up that information they can remove the opengraph tags. Even still, fair use should allow Facebook to summarise the contents of the link if they wanted to (but they don’t do that).

Sure, but then proper monopoly laws would ban most of what meta does.

Sue through those, then.

Making insane laws prohibiting people to talk about facts they've seen elsewhere won't help.

Where does Meta have a monopoly? TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc. all compete with it

In what sense is Meta a monopoly? It seems like they have a huge amount of competition in the form of Google (YouTube), Microsoft (LinkedIn), Reddit, X, Snapchat, Telegram, TikTok, Signal, etc.

A lot of often valuable content is only accessible through Facebook. If you want to see the opening hours of some businesses or photos from some event, you often need a Facebook account.

A lot of valuable content is only available through LinkedIn. So what?

You can create a Facebook account for free so that part isn't a problem. There's no consumer harm.

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