Meta is so unwilling to pay for news under a new Canadian law that it's starting to block it on Facebook and Instagram in that country
Meta is so unwilling to pay for news under a new Canadian law that it's starting to block it on Facebook and Instagram in that country
The rollout of the news ban on Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada will take place over the next few weeks.
Meta is so unwilling to pay for news under a new Canadian law that it's starting to block it on Facebook and Instagram in that country::The rollout of the news ban on Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada will take place over the next few weeks.
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This will probably have no affect on Facebook’s profits but will definitely result in a big drop in traffic to the news sites, ultimately costing them money.
Same thing happened in Spain. Not sure why Canada thought it’d go differently for them.
Same happened in Australia but Facebook backed down
Not exactly…
Australia agreed to amend the law to make it much more favorable to Facebook. In essence, Facebook and Australia compromise.
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Because the law was changed: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/facebook-ban-australia-1.5924076
All those words and the article doesn't actually say what was changed.