Meta announced on February 29th that it will not reach new agreements with traditional news publishers in Australia and the United States, and stated that the number of people using Facebook news specific tags in these countries decreased by more than 80% last year. Meta states that people want to see more short videos, and consumers are not on Facebook to watch news. Last year, the company stated that it would adopt this approach in the UK, France, and Germany, and also stated that it would not reach new agreements with publishers in these countries.