Meta is so unwilling to pay for news under a new Canadian law that it’s starting to block it on Facebook and Instagram in that country::The rollout of the news ban on Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada will take place over the next few weeks.
Facebook tried this in Australia, but backed down after a week, and now pay a significant amount to news organisations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Media_Bargaining_Code
Google and Facebook aren’t going to cut themselves out of such a big slice of interaction, they’re just throwing a tantrum and hoping the government caves.
Google has been fear-mongering hard about this law, which is why I’ll have to assume it’s actually a good thing. I think some enforcement of balance between journalists and the monolithic platform squeezing them is a step in the right direction, although there are some legitimate concerns about unintended consequences.
Meta is unwilling to pay for anything. They don’t pay taxes on their benefits in Canada either, after having swallowed almost 100% of the online ads business. But they’ll keep talking about how good for Canada and Canadians they are.
“They trust me. Dumb fucks!” – Mark Zuckerberg
I would check Facebook more often than now (never) if it was just updates and pics from my friends and family. Right now Facebook is just shitty Reddit. Ban news for everyone Zuck!
No one here is realizing the ridiculousness of telling an internet company that DRIVES TRAFFIC to journalism they must pay for the privilege of sending them the traffic. I’m not a fan of FB, but extorting a company for sending you business is like a reverse protection racket. Whether it’s FB or Google, or Duck Duck Go, it’s asinine.
I mean thats probably a good thing anyway
Imagine being forced to make a better product.
That said, after the Threads position the actual story here is that Meta no longer thinks that the benefit of news outweighs the hassle. If it didn’t, they’d pay.
And they are likely right - AI + US election cycle news isn’t gonna be a net positive for them
Such good news :) Trash took itself out .
And everyone I know will still continue to use fucking Facebook. Zuckerbot could rape their children in front of them and they’d be posting pics of it as it happens.
