Do you read the news? I would say I’m sure everyone does.
Do you visit Wikipedia? How about Google News?
It might not have the same authority as Google, which was the leading search engine at one time. However, Google News is a tried-and-true offshoot website that provides news headlines for any search you desire and helps you get to that news.
I like it. When I want to find a specific news item, I use Google News. Google searches are easy, it is readable, and it contains legitimate news.
While Wikipedia is a user-submitted encyclopedia, it does not provide real-time news coverage.
Historical news events have Wikipedia pages written about them by users who understand the news. It’s not as useful as Google News or social media, however.
For example, Wikipedia is useful for finding out which tracks on an album have been released as singles. Sometimes I use Wikipedia for getting biographical information. As I’m a blogger with a personal blog, I sometimes research a blog post with Wikipedia.
If the information I need is something as grand as understanding an ideology, Wikipedia might be the site to visit.
All that said and done, another source of news on the Internet is Facebook. Facebook is full of news.
It isn’t all good. A lot of it is misinformation, some of it is political misinformation, and a lot of it has various kinds of shortcomings to it.
Now that Bill C-18 has nearly passed, Meta likely has only six months to stop providing news on Facebook.
Bill C-18 says journalists should be paid to provide news. To make that work, it effectively means that Facebook users will not be able to share news on Facebook, I should think.
More probably, Facebook will not be able to ink deals with news distributors for users inside Canada. I have a feeling, as with Bill C-11, that at the level of using Facebook, users will still be free to share news items.
It sounds like it could be a return to insisting that Facebook users contain their interests to keep up with family and friends. However, it also means Facebook’s popularity will likely continue to decline in Canada.
Thanks to CEO Zuckerberg’s previous intrigue with his metaverse ideas, Facebook lost enormous sums of money. This proved Zuckerberg to be losing his Midas touch.
Zuckerberg won’t play ball; he insists that Facebook will no longer distribute news.
On a feature of Facebook called the “news feed.” It is not very pleasant.
Zuckerberg has demonstrated with his bizarre pursuit of the metaverse that, billionaire or not, he can be wrong. Even Mark Zuckerberg appears in The Social Network, the wonderful film directed by David Fincher tells Facebook’s beginnings.
Zuckerberg is not too reasonable on his path to success. I sometimes claim that it is the defining movie of this century to date.
My dad runs a small business in his golden years, and I am the social media manager for his company.
Of course, I include news content for his business on Facebook. Louth United Church and Maple Lawn Cemetery
Now it seems I am going to have to utilize a different strategy if my father keeps me aboard in my role as social media manager.
I can see that I will likely have to watch that I am not straight-up sharing news on Facebook.
I can start by brainstorming different content searches I am interested in conducting.
My dad just said, well, we’ll have to see what happens. I didn’t expect him to have more to say than that. Maybe the bill will yet fail.
Would Martha Stewart have this problem?
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