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- technology@lemmit.online
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- technology@lemmit.online
All news in Canada will be removed from Facebook, Instagram within weeks: Meta::The company says it is removing news for all Canadian users over the course of the next few weeks
There’s better articles out there about the issue. Here’s another article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-meta-begins-process-to-end-news-access-on-facebook-instagram-for-users/
The bulk of the issue seems to be:
I think it’s great that Canada is trying to protect good journalism and find a way to adapt. I don’t know enough about the legislation specifics to know if it’s written in a way that’s fair and not prohibitive to Meta or Google.
I’m on the team that supports good Canadian journalism and I suspect that’s not the same side as Meta. My friend got a notification on his Facebook this week that had messaging around “unfortunately we won’t be showing the news and it’s Canada’s fault”. It was a pretty shitty way that they put it and it seems to have gone into a game of chicken at this point.
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When the news is ad-based, it’s a bad source. Doesn’t matter how good the journalists are, they’ll always be under pressure to not talk about certain things and talk ad nauseam about other things.