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All news in Canada will be removed from Facebook, Instagram within weeks: Meta (www.barrietoday.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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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

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is what peak journalism is written like:

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

Within a few weeks, Canadians will no longer see news stories on their Instagram and Facebook feeds. Meta says they will be removing news from its Instagram and Facebook platforms for all of its Canadian users within the course of the next few weeks. OTTAWA — Meta says it is officially moving to end news access for Canadians on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.

The company says it is removing news for all Canadian users over the course of the next few weeks.

[–] Screwthehole 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My God. Chat gpt and my 7 year old could do better. Fuck me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Paid by words written I guess.

[–] moistclump 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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:

The federal government has said that since 2008, close to 500 media outlets in 335 communities across Canada have closed, with more than 20,000 journalists losing their jobs, while Google and Meta continue to bring in billions in advertising dollars.

“Google and Facebook earn 80 per cent of all digital advertising revenue in Canada. Meanwhile, hundreds of newsrooms have closed,” Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said in a statement.

“A free and independent press is fundamental to our democracy, and Canadians expect tech giants to follow the law in our country.”

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] cyd 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All news in Canada will be removed from Facebook, Instagram within weeks: Meta

Meta says it is officially moving to end news access for Canadians on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.

The company says it is removing news for all Canadian users over the course of the next few weeks.

Guyz, have you heard? Meta is removing news for Canadians in a matter of weeks.

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

:smile:

[–] Eonandahalf 14 points 1 year ago

Why the fuck would you want to read news on Facebook 🙃

[–] Chickenstalker 10 points 1 year ago

> all news in Canada

What? All two?

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

This was posted nine hours ago and has discussion: https://lemmy.world/post/2491510

[–] foggy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait so If I VPN through Canada and connect to Facebook or Instagram, all news will be gone???

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

My understanding is that it's just Canadian news orgs that will be gone but I could be wrong

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

All news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, that's petty of FB

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This way it won't be much extra work to block news in the next place that passes this kind of law. Why keep a bunch of different lists of news sites when they can just use the same one everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's actually great news though. This is going to put a damper on misinformation and far right news sources.

[–] woshang 0 points 1 year ago

Big tech can remove whatever they want