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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a "reckless" ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so ridiculous. It's sad that people need to rely on social media to find "news".

Is CBC that hard to find?

Journalism is so fucked in Canada.

[–] ugjka 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently only 3% of FB feed is news related

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

TIL, that is so small how is this even an issue.