Meta Vows To Remove News From Canada’s Facebook Over News Agency Pay
Facebook has blocked all Australian news content on its platform in response to an Australian law requiring Facebook and Google to pay Australian publishers to link to their news.
The Online News Act requires media platforms to pay Canadian news outlets for the content they publish. And just like in Australia, Meta is now threatening Canadians with a ban.
In a blog post published on Friday, Meta said it may have to decide whether to continue to allow the exchange of news content in Canada. The threat came after the House of Commons Heritage Committee failed to invite the company to discuss the law. The commission heard representatives of Google, but only after the request of the company to include it in the circle of participants in the discussion.
According to Facebook, news accounts for less than 4% of the content displayed on the social network. What’s more, the company helped Australian publishers earn around A$407 million last year.
