When Facebook bans the news

Matt Pearce:

If you’re Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg or a libertarian, you might be looking at this and thinking: “It seems like news publishers need Meta more than Meta needs news publishers. We banned journalism from our services and our users didn’t even abandon us! It’s time for Justin Trudeau to drop this law, which is based on a fundamentally flawed premise” yadda yadda.

I wrote the preceding paragraph before looking up what Meta actually said in response to this study; let’s see how I did.