Justin Ling🆒️ on Nostr: Meta is making good on its threat to kill news sharing in Canada. The tldr of the ...
Meta is making good on its threat to kill news sharing in Canada.
The tldr of the whole thing: The Trudeau government wants an indirect link tax, Meta/Google want to stop the contagion of these policies from reaching the U.S. and Europe, and now Trudeau benefits politically from a war with the tech giants.
Caught inbetween are the news outlets that are about to face a huge drop in traffic.
(Full text available here: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/06/changes-to-news-availability-on-our-platforms-in-canada/ )
The tldr of the whole thing: The Trudeau government wants an indirect link tax, Meta/Google want to stop the contagion of these policies from reaching the U.S. and Europe, and now Trudeau benefits politically from a war with the tech giants.
Caught inbetween are the news outlets that are about to face a huge drop in traffic.
(Full text available here: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/06/changes-to-news-availability-on-our-platforms-in-canada/ )