Pablo Rodriguez, Canada’s heritage minister, said the new law “levels the playing field by putting the power of Big Tech in check and ensuring that even our smallest news business can benefit through this regime and receive fair compensation for their work”. Its Canadian press office issued a statement, saying: “We have repeatedly shared that in order to comply with Bill C-18, passed today in Parliament, content from news outlets, including news publishers and broadcasters, will no longer be available to people accessing our platforms in Canada. Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, said it would carry out a threatened ban on news stories being shared on its platforms, in response to the law’s passage. Justin Trudeau said earlier this month that Meta’s promised ban on news content being shared across Facebook and Instagram was “a real problem”. The law, which received royal assent on Thursday, is the latest move by countries which believe Big Tech’s near-monopoly on online advertising harms news publishers and starves the public of important information. Facebook and Instagram have blocked news from being shared in Canada after a new law was passed forcing Big Tech companies to pay publishers for using their content.Ĭanada’s new Online News Act means social media and search giants such as Facebook parent Meta, Google, TikTok and others will have to pay publishers for reproducing news stories or snippets from them.
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