Journalists and news consumers can exhale. Canadian news will not be blocked on Google, at least not any time soon. But another digital giant, Mark Zuckerberg’s $840-billion Meta, remains defiant in stripping Canadian news from its Facebook and Instagram.
That’s where we are on this, the day the contentious Online News Act comes into effect. How did we get here and what lies ahead?
Sadly and old phenomonen with no end in sight.
Generally speaking no one should take Social Media as a legit news source, but here we are. Even some corporate news sources should not be take seriously as news sources.