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South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers are asking the public for help finding a vehicle and its driver after it struck a moped and left the scene of the crash.
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The social media giant has long been opposed to a Liberal bill, which passed into law Thursday, that would compel it and Google to strike deals with media publishers and face penalties if they don’t.
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Bill C-18 has sparked fiery opposition from big tech, which has threatened to block access to news across Canada if the proposed legislation passes unchanged.
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Meta’s move follows a similar tactic employed by Google earlier this year, which saw the global search giant launch a test that filtered out Canadian and international news content for some of its users in Canada.