US EditionFacebook’s Wants to Turn Basic Link Sharing Into a Paid Feature
Meta limits link shares for creators on professional Facebook accounts, with unlimited links behind a $14.99/month Meta Verified subscription, as part of a feature test.
- Notifications to select creators show that starting December 16, certain Facebook profiles without Meta Verified will be limited to sharing links in two organic posts per month, Meta confirmed it is experimenting with the cap.
- Meta says the limited test aims to evaluate whether greater link-posting ability adds value for Meta Verified subscribers, and Matt Navarra noted it tests the Meta Verified badge as a `trust signal`.
- The test targets Facebook Pages and professional-mode profiles, used by businesses, creators and public figures, while regular Facebook profiles remain unaffected; links to Meta properties and in comments are exempt, and unused quotas do not rollover.
- Requiring subscriptions to regain link volume may push creators and businesses toward subscribing, reduce traffic to publishers, bloggers and small businesses, and increase scam risks from scammers and disinformation actors.
- Analysts say this fits a wider `pay-to-play` trend, noting Meta's 2023 EU subscription attempt faced backlash and Facebook referrals fell nearly 60 per cent from 2018 to 2024, Chartbeat data shows.
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Would you pay for Facebook? Here’s where you might have to
Facebook (now Meta) is currently running a limited test that restricts some users to sharing only two external web links per month in organic posts unless they subscribe to Meta Verified, a paid verification service starting at around €10.80 to €12.90 per month (depending on region and purchase method). While this change primarily targets profiles in Professional Mode and Facebook Pages (used by… Source
Another outrageous move from Meta: for many, the free use of a previously basic option would be severely restricted, and testing is already underway.
Facebook’s wants to turn basic link sharing into a paid feature
Meta is experimenting with charging users to share more than a couple of links on Facebook. While still a limited test, the change signals how basic platform features are increasingly being tied to paid subscriptions.
The Facebook social network would be testing the establishment of a limit on the number of links that its users can share.
Meta tests paywalling Facebook link-sharing features for creators
Are you a creator who shares links on Facebook? Be sure not to go over your monthly quota.Some creators on Facebook are receiving a notification that they will be limited to posting a certain number of links in organic posts each month, unless they subscribed to Meta Verified for $14.99 per month. Here's the Meta link-sharing limit test notification currently going out to select creators. Credit: Matt Navarra / Threads “This is a limited test to…
The Meta can start digging to publish on Facebook. Strangely enough, Mark Zuckerberg's latest idea has to look at the amount of content that can be shared...
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