While speaking at a security forum in the United States, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland expressed concerns about media being overly funded by the government and said that tech companies should foot the bill instead.
“I think there’s a real challenge with news organizations deriving a great deal of their revenue from the public sector, from the government,” said Ms. Freeland while addressing the Aspen Security Forum on July 21, as part of a session with Politico’s editor-in-chief Matthew Kaminski.
“At the end of the day, the resources do have to come from the tech companies.”
Mr. Kaminski was asking about the Liberals’ passage of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, and whether the government planned to modify it given pushback from social media giants….