Article via https://www.ctvnews.ca on 08 May 2023
“It’s absolutely our intention to not make the same errors in Canada that we made in Australia,” Curran said Monday.
In 2021, Facebook temporarily blocked Australians from sharing news stories in response to a government bill that asked Google and Facebook to contribute to journalism.
If passed, Bill C-18 would require tech giants to pay Canadian media companies for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online.
The problem is that it doesn’t have much of an economic value to Meta.