• i’m sure Canadians are really peeved about this one, it’d really suck if Facebook weren’t allowed to continue promoting far-right misinformation, genocide denial, anti-vaccine bullshit and other goodies into everyone’s feed

  •  koreth   ( @koreth@lemm.ee ) 
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    171 year ago

    I don’t understand why people are saying this will reduce misinformation. The fringe sites peddling things like genocide denial aren’t news organizations to begin with, so users will still be able to share their content freely. It’ll become harder for other people to counter the misinformation by linking to legitimate news sources.

    • Exactly. Misinformation is not generated from those tech companies itself. It is coming from the news created by the mass media giant and the underlying users. This only serves as a proxy war between the traditional media and big tech corporate.

  • This is great news. Not allowing Facebook to pretend it’s some sort of valid place to find information will be a net positive for Canada. Not being able to find news through google easily will be annoying, but I’ll just go directly to several news sites instead.

        •  rho50   ( @rho50@lemmy.nz ) 
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          11 year ago

          IIRC DuckDuckGo wasn’t a fan of the Australian media bargaining bill either. I suspect they will also deindex news sites in Canada should amendments not be made.

          I haven’t seen the Canadian one and this is honestly the first I’ve heard of it, but the idea that a referrer has to pay a news website for directing traffic to them is ludicrous to me.

    •  ram   ( @ram@lemmy.ca ) 
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      101 year ago

      This is, at least according to meta, a permanent change on their part. I’m fully in support of it, and in fact think this is a better outcome for Canadians than them paying the publishers.