On the same day that the Liberal government’s Bill C-18 received royal assent and passed into law, U.S. tech giant Meta announced it would be blocking content from news outlets for Canadian users in order to comply with the new legislation.
The Online News Act requires that online platforms and digital news intermediaries like Google and Meta—which owns Facebook and Instagram—negotiate deals with and pay Canadian media outlets for any of their news and information linked on their platforms.
However, Meta said on June 22, the day the Online News Act received royal assent, that it had noted beforehand that it would need to completely drop news sharing in Canada by outlets, publishers, and broadcasters on its platforms in order to comply with act….