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

Technology@lemmy.world – 321 points – 1 years ago

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.

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This will probably have no affect on Facebook’s profits but will definitely result in a big drop in traffic to the news sites, ultimately costing them money.

Same thing happened in Spain. Not sure why Canada thought it’d go differently for them.