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Online News Act could see Google, Meta pay combined $234 million to Canadian media

Resource type
Author/contributor
Title
Online News Act could see Google, Meta pay combined $234 million to Canadian media
Abstract
The federal government has put a price tag on what it would like to see Google and Facebook spend under an act requiring the tech giants to compensate media for news articles.
Publication
CBC News
Date
2023-09-01
Language
English
Accessed
03/09/2023, 00:38
Rights
Freedom of the Press
Extra
Canada
Notes

The Meta story about blocking Canadian news sources disproportionally affects Indigenous and Northern communities, whose news sources predominantly post and circulate news through Facebook. Additionally, this block become very dangerous when two large evacuations from wildfire were required and all Facebook sources were blocked. (comments from JR for relevancy)

Citation
Deschamps, T. (2023, September 1). Online News Act could see Google, Meta pay combined $234 million to Canadian media. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-news-act-google-meta-1.6954656