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# Meta to charge companies for Facebook link posts, for now sparing publishers
- URL: https://www.medianexis.com/meta-to-charge-companies-for-facebook-link-posts-for-now-sparing-publishers/
- Published: 2026-10-11T01:35:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-11T01:35:26.000Z
- Description: Simon Owens’s Media Newsletter reports that Meta is moving ahead with a plan requiring companies to pay to post external links on Facebook pages, a policy that currently exempts publishers.
- Author: The Signals Desk
- Tags: Ad-tech, Simon Owens, Simon Owens: viral Twitter accounts into media companies

**Why it matters.** Publishers lose leverage if Meta later extends the link-posting fee to them, since their exemption is explicitly described as temporary.

*Signal from* [*Simon Owens's Media Newsletter*](https://simonowens.substack.com/) *·* [*Simon Owens*](https://www.medianexis.com/tag/by-simon-owens/) *·* [*read the original*](https://simonowens.substack.com/p/remember-when-viral-twitter-accounts)*.*