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Canada wildfire evacuees say Facebook's news ban 'dangerous' in emergency situation::The ongoing fight between tech company Meta and the federal government over subsidizing news publishers means links to news sources are being blocked on sites like Facebook and Instagram. Wildfire evacuees in the Northwest Territories say that's making it harder to share life-saving information during an emergency.

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[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or take responsibility for creating the situation with a nonsensical link tax.

I don't like Facebook, but this idea that Facebook or Google is stealing from a news organization by linking to it is about as asinine as game companies going after Twitch streamers for promoting their game.

I haven't followed this super closely, but I think some Canadian news organizations must have gotten greedy and decided to play chicken and double dip on an already mutually beneficial relationship, not realizing the other party would just say "okay, you don't want to be on our site, fine."

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