Bill C\u002D18 is sensible because we\u0027re the ones who bring eyeballs to advertisers
If another hurricane hits us tomorrow, we won’t be able be that kind of resource anymore. We can post to our website, as we did then, but Meta will block everything shared on our Facebook page. Recently, we were notified that residents whose homes will be demolished in 2024 as part of the Hurricane Fiona cleanup are packing up their belongings and are in need of totes. Normally we’d share that kind of thing and people would re-share it, spurring donations. Meta won’t let us do that now.
Meta is blocking us from sharing so many other things, like water main break notices, Wreckhouse wind warnings and road closures caused by rockslides or collapsed culverts. We share notices about local events, fundraisers, municipal councils and even businessesbecause what’s the point in going to the grocery store if it closed early because of a freezer break?Article content
While paying Meta doesn’t do much for us, we help the company generate revenue with every post. We drive eyes not only to our own page but to followers of other pages and members of other groups; all of these users get ads in their feeds, too.Article content Did Facebook create that page that generated that link? No. We did. Did they create the content that the link leads to? No. We did. Did we get paid for that link we posted on their platform? No. They did, even though it’s our intellectual property. Did Meta get paid by advertisers even if you never saw that link while scrolling our page, never clicked on it or never subscribed? Yes, they did. We didn’t.
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