{"id":1988948,"date":"2023-08-02T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-news-ban-begins-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T16:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T20:32:26","slug":"meta-news-ban-begins-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-news-ban-begins-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Instagram in Canada start enforcing meta 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\">20<\/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-news-ban-begins-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada%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=1988948&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 Takes Action to Limit\u200c News Availability in Canada<\/h2>\n<p>Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has recently made a bold move by \u2063cutting\u200b off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-apologizes-for-comparing-mask-vaccine-mandates-to-holocaust\/\" title=\"Marjorie Taylor Greene Apologizes For Comparing Mask, Vaccine Mandates To Holocaust\">news availability<\/a> to Canadians on its platforms. This decision comes in response to Canada&#8217;s Online News Act, which requires Big Tech companies to\u200d <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.\">negotiate compensation deals<\/a> with news organizations for the content published\u200c on their platforms.<\/p>\n<h3>Meta Stands Firm Against Canadian Law<\/h3>\n<p>Andy Stone, a spokesperson\u200c for \u200cMeta, expressed his dissatisfaction with the new law, stating that Canadians \u2063would soon witness the changes. In a post on X, Elon Musk&#8217;s company\u200c formerly known as Twitter, Stone \u2062announced, &#8220;Today we&#8217;ve begun the process of ending news availability \u2064in Canada. Changes\u2063 will roll out over a few\u200b weeks. As we&#8217;ve always said, the law is based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-begins-removing-canadians-access-to-all-news-on-facebook-instagram\/\" title=\"Meta is now blocking Canadians from accessing news on Facebook and Instagram.\">fundamentally flawed premise<\/a>. And, regrettably, the only way we can reasonably\u200b comply is to end news availability in Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u2063Meta&#8217;s opposition, Canada&#8217;s leadership has \u200bdefended the Online News Act. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez wrote in an email to the \u2064National Post, &#8220;If the Government can&#8217;t stand\u200c up for\u200d Canadians\u200b against tech \u200cgiants, who will?&#8221; \u2063Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also\u200b criticized Meta&#8217;s decision, calling it &#8220;deeply irresponsible and out of touch&#8221; and \u200dstating that it is &#8220;dangerous to our democracy and our economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Google Joins Meta in Restricting News Content<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to Meta, Google has\u2062 also announced that it will be pulling news content from its search engine in\u200b Canada. Kent Walker, the president of global affairs at Google and \u2062Alphabet,\u2064 expressed \u200ddisappointment in this decision, emphasizing the uncertainty it creates for their products and the \u2064potential financial liability \u200dthey may face. Walker stated, &#8220;The unprecedented \u2062decision to\u200b put a price on links\u2063 (a so-called &#8216;link tax&#8217;) \u2063exposes us to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-news-ban-begins-on-facebook-and-instagram-in-canada\/\" title=\"Facebook and Instagram in Canada start enforcing meta news ban.\">uncapped financial liability \u2062simply<\/a> for facilitating Canadians&#8217; access to news from Canadian publishers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2062 is worth noting that the United States Congress has also considered similar legislation in the form of the Journalism Competition and Preservation\u2062 Act (JCPA). While the bill has faced challenges and \u2063disagreements in the past, it\u200d recently passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and \u2062is awaiting\u2064 consideration by \u2064the \u200bSenate. However, Speaker of \u200bthe House Kevin McCarthy has expressed doubts about its\u2063 success in the House, stating that the\u2063 bill would be &#8220;dead on the floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s actions in Canada and their \u2063threats regarding the JCPA highlight the ongoing battle between Big Tech\u200c companies and governments over \u200bthe regulation of \u2062news content and fair\u2064 compensation for news organizations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK \u2063HERE\u2064 TO READ MORE FROM \u2064THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and Instagram in Canada. The Online News Act passed by Canada&#8217;s Parliament in June compelled Meta to halt news sharing on their platforms, as it requires Big Tech firms to engage in compensation negotiations with news organizations for all published content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1988949,"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-1988948","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\/1988948","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=1988948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}