A resident of Niagara Falls in New York would be able to read Facebook posts by Canadian news organizations while those living across the border in Niagara Falls, Ont., would not
Facebook said Friday that tinkering with the Online News Act through regulations would not be enough to stop it blocking access to news in Canada, but people in the United States, Britain and other countries would still be able to read Canadian stories on the platform.
This would mean that a resident of Niagara Falls in New York would be able to read Facebook posts by Canadian news organizations such as The Globe and Mail, while those living across the border in Niagara Falls, Ont., would not. “Under C-18, digital news intermediaries have to make deals with news companies or face fines. One obvious way to comply with this law is not to be a digital news intermediary at all, which is precisely what Meta has announced it is doing.”
But on Friday, Facebook said regulations would not be enough to deter it from blocking Canadians’ access to news on the platform. Both the government and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, can issue regulations on how the act would be implemented. On Thursday, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez held 11th-hour talks via videolink with Google executives in the United States. The talks with Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer, and Don Harrison, president of global partnerships, are expected to resume next week.
Meta is currently testing ways to block news on both Facebook and Instagram, affecting around 1.1 million Canadians.
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