If Meta was a miner we’d shut them down - The Border Watch

If Meta was a miner we’d shut them down - The Border Watch

I’m often asked why Meta (owners of Facebook) should be forced to pay compensation to news publishers. It’s a fair question. On the surface, Facebook can be seen as a media disruptor, like Uber upending the taxi industry, or cars replacing horse and cart. It’s easy to think social media is just the “new and improved” media. But Facebook isn’t a modern version of traditional media at all – it’s an entirely different thing. The core business of tr…