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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a "reckless" ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

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[-] Prezhotnuts@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 years ago

This is so ridiculous. It's sad that people need to rely on social media to find "news".

Is CBC that hard to find?

Journalism is so fucked in Canada.

[-] ugjka@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Apparently only 3% of FB feed is news related

[-] Prezhotnuts@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

TIL, that is so small how is this even an issue.

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