Meta says it will cease providing news services on Facebook and Instagram before Canada's new law requiring it to pay news publishers comes into effect.Canada's Online News Act (Bill C-18)

Meta says it will cease providing news services on Facebook and Instagram before Canada’s new law requiring it to pay news publishers comes into effect.

Canada’s Online News Act (Bill C-18) has cleared its final Senate hearing and now needs only royal assent to become law. By the time it does, Meta will have shut down its news services for the country, so there.Meta is effectively saying that it’s their ball and they’re taking it home. But of course it’s not their ball, this is about Facebook and Instagram profiting from news publishers as it pays them nothing, and drives the industry out of business.

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