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The company says it wants to work out the kinks before permanently blocking news on its platforms when the Liberal government's online news act becomes law.
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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.
The company says it wants to work out the kinks before permanently blocking news on its platforms when the Liberal government’s online news act becomes law.
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News publishers say that if big tech platforms pull Canadian news content from their pages, the move could end smaller news businesses or result in millions of dollars in lost revenue.
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News publishers say that if big tech platforms pull Canadian news content from their pages, the move could end smaller news businesses or result in millions of dollars in lost revenue.