Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc would end availability of news content for Canadians on its platforms if the country’s Online News Act passes in its current form.
The “Online News Act,” or House of Commons bill C-18, introduced in April last year laid out rules to force platforms like Meta and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content.”
Canada’s news media industry has asked the government for more regulation of tech companies to allow the industry to recoup financial losses it has suffered in the years as tech giants like Google and Meta steadily gain greater market share of advertising.
Meta’s defence is that they should not be compelled to pay for links or content that they do not post, and, is neither sustainable nor workable,
Meta’s move comes after Google last month started testing limited news censorship as a potential response to the bill.
Facebook last year raised concerns about the legislation and warned it might be forced to block news-sharing on its platform.
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