Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says the federal government will stop advertising on Facebook and Instagram.
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez makes an address during the Canada Day noon show, in Ottawa, on Saturday, July 1, 2023.is suspending advertising on Facebook and Instagram as tensions with tech giants rise, with the province of Quebec and the City of Montreal following suit within hours.
“If the government and politicians don’t stand up against that kind of bullying or intimidation, who will?” Google has also promised to start blocking Canadian news when the bill comes into force in six months, but Rodriguez said the government is in talks with the company and believes its concerns will be managed by the regulations that will come to implement the bill.
“Unfortunately, the regulatory process is not equipped to make changes to the fundamental features of the legislation that have always been problematic, and so we plan to comply by ending news availability in Canada in the coming weeks,” the spokesperson said in a statement. In a statement provided to The Canadian Press, Klobuchar panned the tech giants and called for resistance.
“Any move by Meta to circumvent Canadian law, block news for its users or discriminate against Canadian media content on its platforms, through its algorithms or otherwise, cannot be tolerated,” Quebecor said in a press release. “Cogeco also calls on all levels of government to follow suit and temporarily stop investing in advertising on Meta platforms,” the company said in a statement.
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