I hit my first instance of Meta blocking Canadian news content. (media.cosocial.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by boris@cosocial.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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I hit my first instance of Meta blocking Canadian news content.

Rachael sent me a story from #CBCVancouver via Instagram messages.

The thumbnail is visible in messages (1), but when I click, I get the restricted message (2)

I wasn’t following the CBCVancouver account, and when I search for and visit the profile, I get a different message (3)

I guess Rachael hasn’t had this rolled out to her account yet.

Remember, there are no good guys in this #BillC18 debacle.

@canada

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[-] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

We disagree on this point, I think the news orgs are the good guys.

Facebook brings traffic to these sites. News does not bring traffic to Facebook. There's only one side profiting from sites like Facebook sending them traffic and it isn't Facebook. There's a reason why most (I want to say all, but I can't swear to that) countries that pulled similar moves weren't just OK with Facebook and Google just not serving news. They know they get their traffic from social media sites now, they just also want to be paid on top of that for some reason.