Canada's Heritage Minister is leaving the door open to regulating new social media platform Threads.
Posted: Jul. 12, 2023 3:56PMMinister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez participates in a news conference on Bill C-18, the Online News Act, in Ottawa, on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Rodriguez says he's leaving the door open to regulating new social media platform Threads under a bill forcing Google and Meta to pay publishers for content they link to or repurpose.
The text and images platform has garnered at least 100 million users since it sprang up last Wednesday, after the act targeting Meta properties Facebook and Instagram along with Google’s search engine and news products received royal assent on June 22. In his latest salvo, he pulled the federal government’s $10 million in annual advertising spend from Meta’s platforms last week.
“Google decided to stay at the table and keep discussing with us. Meta took the bully approach and decided not to discuss with us anymore,” said Rodriguez.Rodriguez declined to discuss the specifics of the conversations he has been having with Google, but said they have been “open, frank discussions.
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