It comes after parliament passed a bill requiring tech giants to compensate publishers for news.
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i’m sure Canadians are really peeved about this one, it’d really suck if Facebook weren’t allowed to continue promoting far-right misinformation, genocide denial, anti-vaccine bullshit and other goodies into everyone’s feed
This is great news. Not allowing Facebook to pretend it’s some sort of valid place to find information will be a net positive for Canada. Not being able to find news through google easily will be annoying, but I’ll just go directly to several news sites instead.
As a Canadian I am happy with this news. I am not on Facebook but I know many who are and the amount of misinformation they spread is crazy. In most cases their source of misinformation is Facebook. So I am glad this is happening.
This is why Meta is batting its eyes at the Fediverse.
“You really want those new millions of viewers (with a toxic dose of murderous disinformation with it), doncha, hun?” 🥰😘
Happy to see Meta booted from the industry, but I’m a bit concerned about Google no longer indexing news articles here…
Google is more interested in serving page after page of ads and boilerplate and ai generated articles. I don’t think them not indexing things is as relevant as it used to be
Ever since I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo, my searching experience has been way better. Google’s new mobile experience is absolute garbage.
If this marks the return of people actually picking up a newspaper (or the digital equivalent), that’d be fantastic. Not holding my breath, but one can hope.
Artifact was smart. They dedicated a whole tab for Canadian news