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Meta permanently ending news availability on its platforms in Canada starting today | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)

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Social media giant Meta says it has officially begun ending news availability on its platforms in Canada starting Tuesday.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whenever these articles are brought up, it seems like there is a fairly large cohort of people celebrating this. To which, I'm not entirely sure why. They often espouse that it'll help curb disinformation. However, I don't see this stopping memes or propaganda from coming to Facebook.

What it will do is eliminate the few pieces of legitimate news from the website. I don't think this is quite the victory that (some) people think it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

However, I don't see this stopping propaganda from coming to Facebook.

But they wouldn't be able to confuse it with genuine news - as they'd know that actual legit news doesn't exist on that website anymore.

What it will do is eliminate the few pieces of legitimate news from the website.

Something else will fill the gap. People got news long before there was FB or Google, heck even before internet and computers.

[–] VivaceMoss 1 points 1 year ago

they'd know that actual legit news doesn't exist on that website anymore

The people getting the majority of their news from Facebook likely considered the memes to be more legitimate than the actual news anyway.