{"id":1981519,"date":"2023-07-24T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-under-pressure-for-bullying-canadian-government-and-outlets-with-news-ban\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:39:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:39:41","slug":"meta-under-pressure-for-bullying-canadian-government-and-outlets-with-news-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-under-pressure-for-bullying-canadian-government-and-outlets-with-news-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces backlash for allegedly bullying the Canadian government and news outlets through a news ban."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeta-under-pressure-for-bullying-canadian-government-and-outlets-with-news-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1981519&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Meta Faces Potential Revenue Loss as Canadian \u2063Government and\u200b Media Withhold Advertising<\/h2>\n<p>Meta, the \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> formerly known as Facebook, \u2062could\u200c suffer significant\u2063 financial consequences as\u2062 Canadian government officials and media\u200d outlets take a stand against its \u2063decision\u2064 to block links \u2062to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-forget-about-the-other-drug-crisis\/\" title=\"Don\u2019t Forget About The Other Drug Crisis\">local news stories<\/a>. This\u2064 move has prompted government agencies\u2063 in\u2062 Canada to stop purchasing ads from Meta, as well as from Instagram and Google, in protest.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy stems from the \u2064passing of\u200c the Online \u2063News Act in Canada, which\u2064 mandates that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-under-pressure-for-bullying-canadian-government-and-outlets-with-news-ban\/\" title=\"Meta faces backlash for allegedly bullying the Canadian government and news outlets through a news ban.\">social platforms compensate news outlets<\/a> for distributing their content. In response, Meta implemented a\u2062 ban \u200don sharing\u200c links to Canadian news outlets within \u2064the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Ad\u200b Boycott Threatens \u200dMeta&#8217;s Bottom \u2064Line<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The sudden \u2063movement by advertisers, \u200bincluding the federal, Quebec, British Columbia governments, as well as some leading \u200dCanadian\u200c businesses, to pull advertising from\u200b Meta \u2062could well cost the \u2064company more than they would have\u2064 to pay publishers\u200b under the Online \u200dNews\u2062 Act,&#8221; said Paul\u2062 Deegan, CEO\u200c of News Media Canada, a trade association for\u200d Canadian newspapers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u200c Canadian Association of \u200bBroadcasters President, Kevin Desjardins, \u2062expressed concerns \u200cabout the impact of\u200b foreign web giants on the Canadian economy. \u200dHe called on both Google and\u200c Meta to act responsibly \u200cand\u2062 stop allowing misinformation \u200dand disinformation to thrive\u200d by impeding \u200baccess to high-quality journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Heritage\u200d Minister Pablo Rodriguez \u200bcriticized Meta&#8217;s approach, describing it as a &#8220;bully approach&#8221; \u2062that disregards Canada&#8217;s sovereignty. He\u200c emphasized \u200dthe need for these tech\u2064 giants to contribute their fair\u200d share and not\u200b dictate terms\u2063 to \u200bthe country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Estimated Financial Consequences<\/h3>\n<p>Rodriguez estimated that Meta&#8217;s decision\u200b to\u200d block \u2062links to \u200cCanadian news outlets would \u200cresult in \u2062an annual\u200c loss of\u2064 $7.54 million for the\u2062 company.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Google\u2064 initially\u200b supported\u200b Meta&#8217;s ban on news \u200clinks, it eventually entered into negotiations with the\u2063 Canadian\u200b government to find a resolution, as confirmed \u200bby Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Congress is \u200dalso considering a\u2064 similar bill, the Journalism Competition and \u200dPreservation \u200bAct, which has\u2062 passed through committee and awaits consideration by the Senate. However, resistance \u200dis expected in the House, with \u200bSpeaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) indicating that the bill would not progress.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u200dworth noting \u2062that Meta previously \u2063imposed a ban on sharing \u2062and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-threatens-to-stop-sharing-news-if-canada-enacts-regulatory-bill\/\" title=\"Meta may stop sharing news if Canada passes regulatory bill.\">viewing news stories<\/a> in Australia when the country introduced a law requiring\u2062 the company to pay news\u200b outlets\u2063 for their content. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-to-ban-news-sharing-on-facebook-in-canada-after-journalism-bill-passes\/\" title=\"Facebook in Canada to prohibit news sharing following the passage of journalism bill.\">international pressure led<\/a> to the ban being reversed within\u200b days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> \u200c to read more from the Washington \u200bExaminer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta faces potential revenue losses as Canadian government officials and media outlets refuse to advertise on the platform due to its link-blocking stance on local news. In response, Canadian government agencies have halted ad purchases on Facebook, Instagram, and Google, expressing their discontent with the social platforms&#8217; link-sharing cessation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}