Meta Is Charging Government And Nonprofit Pages To Post Links On Facebook
The new restrictions are a test which is explicitly not supposed to impact these entities.
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Daniel Starks is the communications manager for Greenville, Texas, a city of about 35,000. He oversees nearly a dozen Facebook pages the city maintains. Recently, the page for the city's library was notified it could no longer post more than two links a month.
"You can add links to 2 posts per month, and you've used them all," a message said. Sharing additional links would require signing up for a Meta One subscription that would cost $50 or more a month.
Starks is one of a growing number of people to encounter Meta's ongoing experiment with charging creators, businesses and other professionals to post links on Facebook. Meta saysthe test, which is part of its push to sell more subscriptions, isn't supposed to affect pages for nonprofits or government entities. But that's...
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