Meta Platforms said it would end news content on Facebook and Instagram in Canada if lawmakers pass legislation to force social-networking platforms to pay media publishers to feature their work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve taken the difficult decision that if this flawed legislation is passed, we will have to end the availability of news content on Facebook and Instagram in Canada,\u201d Nick Clegg, Meta\u2019s president of global affairs, said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n
Clegg described Canada\u2019s proposed Online News Act as \u201cfundamentally flawed,\u201d saying Canada would become the \u201cfirst democracy to put a price on free links to of global norms.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former UK deputy prime minister had been scheduled to speak about the bill at a committee of Canada\u2019s House of Commons on Monday. But he cancelled after the title of the session was changed to, \u201cTech Giants’ Current and Ongoing Use of Intimidation and Subversion Tactics to Evade Regulation in Canada and Across the World.\u201d Canada’s act, known as Bill C-18, was proposed to establish a \u201cfair revenue sharing\u201d system between digital platforms and news outlets and provide for collective bargaining by media in negotiating fees with companies like Meta.<\/p>\n
In introducing the legislation last year, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said he was seeking to address a \u201cmarket imbalance\u201d as an increasing number of Canadians turn to digital platforms for news. Canada is certainly not the first country that Meta has warned on the prospect of pulling its content. The company had said last year that it would remove Facebook and Instagram from Europe altogether over European Union data regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Meta Platforms said it would end news content on Facebook and Instagram in Canada if lawmakers pass legislation to force social-networking platforms to pay media publishers to feature their work. \u201cWe\u2019ve taken the difficult decision that if this flawed legislation is passed, we will have to end the availability of news content on Facebook and Instagram in Canada,\u201d Nick Clegg, Meta\u2019s president of global affairs, said in a statement on Monday. Clegg described Canada\u2019s proposed Online News Act as \u201cfundamentally flawed,\u201d saying Canada would become the \u201cfirst democracy to put a price on free links to of global norms.\u201d The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}