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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 (fortune.com)

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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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[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

So it's you that gets his news from Facebook . I was wondering who it was.

[-] Terevos@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nah. I'm not on Facebook anymore. But this law could easily affect places like reddit and lemmy and mastodon, twitter, and the rest of the internet. It sets a bad precedent.

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