Two years after Australia’s landmark Facebook showdown, it’s happening again overseas
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has said that it will not comply with the law and will instead block news content from its platforms in Canada.
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The Online News Act, which took effect on June 22 (2023) requires internet companies to negotiate commercial deals with news publishers for the use of their content.
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Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said that the law is "based on a fundamentally flawed premise" and that the company's only means of complying with it is to end news availability in Canada.
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