AskPippa🇨🇦 on Nostr: "#Facebook has started blocking news from Canadian news outlets. "The federal ...
"#Facebook has started blocking news from Canadian news outlets.
"The federal government's Online News Act, C-18, became law on June 22. It compels companies like Google and #Meta, Facebook and Instagram's parent company, to pay money to #news organizations each time a user accesses a web story through a link on one of their products.
The bill has been pitched as a way to keep news outlets solvent after advertising moved en masse to digital platforms, virtually wiping out a major revenue stream for #journalism."
#CBC
btw Journalists don't write for free -- it's how they make a living. Revenue from advertising supports journalists, editors and overhead for news outlets -- and many are earning a fraction of what they once did after the Internet appeared and people started to to expect free news content.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-news-act-google-facebook-meta-1.6897186
"The federal government's Online News Act, C-18, became law on June 22. It compels companies like Google and #Meta, Facebook and Instagram's parent company, to pay money to #news organizations each time a user accesses a web story through a link on one of their products.
The bill has been pitched as a way to keep news outlets solvent after advertising moved en masse to digital platforms, virtually wiping out a major revenue stream for #journalism."
#CBC
btw Journalists don't write for free -- it's how they make a living. Revenue from advertising supports journalists, editors and overhead for news outlets -- and many are earning a fraction of what they once did after the Internet appeared and people started to to expect free news content.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-news-act-google-facebook-meta-1.6897186