{"id":13583,"date":"2024-03-05T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/misleading-clickbait-is-prevalent-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada-after-metas-news-ban-could-it-happen-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:37:39","slug":"misleading-clickbait-is-prevalent-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada-after-metas-news-ban-could-it-happen-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/misleading-clickbait-is-prevalent-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada-after-metas-news-ban-could-it-happen-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading clickbait is prevalent on Facebook and Instagram in Canada after Meta\u2019s news ban. Could it happen in Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A real-world, newsless Facebook turns out to be more toxic than I had anticipated,\u2019 says Prof Jean-Hughes Roy<\/p>\n<p>Misleading viral clickbait dominates Facebook and Instagram in Canada after Meta pulled news from its platforms nine months ago, according to an expert. Now Australia could face a similar scenario online with the company preparing to battle the Australian government over payments to news organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Meta announced it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/mar\/01\/facebook-news-tab-shut-down-end-australia-journalism-funding-deals\">no longer pay Australian news publishers<\/a>, prompting the Australian government to explore the use of legislative powers to force the platform to negotiate with news media for payment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/06\/misleading-clickbait-is-prevalent-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada-after-metas-news-ban-could-it-happen-in-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/58d651433705eb7d32da9401f509bc26ef71c0a3\/0_95_3500_2102\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=00f45b92fc49cd951136020b640b9c91\" title=\"Misleading clickbait is prevalent on Facebook and Instagram in Canada after Meta\u2019s news ban. Could it happen in Australia?\" \/>\u2018A real-world, newsless Facebook turns out to be more toxic than I had anticipated,\u2019 says Prof Jean-Hughes Roy<br \/>\nMisleading viral clickbait dominates Facebook and Instagram in Canada after Meta pulled news from its platforms nine months ago, according to an expert. Now Australia could face a similar scenario online with the company preparing to battle the Australian government over payments to news organisations.<br \/>\nLast week Meta announced it would no longer pay Australian news publishers, prompting the Australian government to explore the use of legislative powers to force the platform to negotiate with news media for payment. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A real-world, newsless Facebook turns out to be more toxic than I had anticipated,\u2019 says Prof Jean-Hughes Roy Misleading viral clickbait dominates Facebook and Instagram in Canada after Meta pulled news from its platforms nine months ago, according to an expert. Now Australia could face a similar scenario online with the company preparing to battle &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/misleading-clickbait-is-prevalent-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada-after-metas-news-ban-could-it-happen-in-australia\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misleading clickbait is prevalent on Facebook and Instagram in Canada after Meta\u2019s news ban. Could it happen in Australia?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}