response by Linda Solomon Wood, founder of Canada’s National Observer
long screenshot above from an email received 6am Sunday, June 25
from an item – dated Friday, June 23 – on the National Observer website:
A federal bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms has become law.
The Senate passed the bill Thursday in a final vote and was given royal assent amid a standoff between the Liberal government and Silicon Valley tech giants.
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Meta confirmed Thursday that it plans to comply with the bill by ending news availability on Facebook and Instagram for its Canadian users, as it had previously suggested.
Meta would not offer details about the timeline for that move, but said it will pull local news from its site before the Online News Act takes effect. The bill will come into force six months from Thursday.*
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2023-06-26 / notes
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