Good. You’re not supposed to go to Facebook to be informed.
What do you mean? The same people who get “news” from Facebook will still get “news” from Facebook. It will just no longer involve any actual media companies. Think blogger, pseudo-news and AI generated content - fake news gonna fake.
No American or international news either, says Meta
Canadians will no longer be able to view or post news content on Facebook or Instagram. News outlets, including international ones, will start having their content blocked on those platforms
For those not reading the article: the law isn’t prohibiting Facebook from letting users share news content. Rather, it’s requiring Facebook to pay Canadian publishers before letting users share their news content. The amount to be paid is to be determined through government-meditated negotiations with the publishers. Facebook has chosen not to participate in this and therefore it will stop letting users share news articles at all.
(Why Facebook won’t be letting Canadian users share articles published in other countries is not clear to me.)
(Why Facebook won’t be letting Canadian users share articles published in other countries is not clear to me.)
Two reasons come to mind
- (relative good faithed) Prevent accidentally breaking the rules, having canadian content on international outlets etc ect
- (bad faith) Actively overreact and punish users for the government decision to force them to backpaddle on the whole thing
Oh no! Anyways…
I lobbied hard for c-18. For those who were getting their news from Facebook, you’re free now. You can either put an ounce of effort into informing yourself and be ten times harder to program, or let an American megacorp continue to spoon feed you reality, but understand that the quality of your sources just went down the shitter
if you get your news from facebook… nuff said
What’s the alternative? The local CTV reporter who keeps us abreast in the local news – the news that matters most in our daily lives – also published his reports on X, but beyond that?
If I go directly to CTV they want to tell me about how the fire department was called to save a cat stuck in a tree in a city hundreds of kilometres away. I couldn’t care less. That isn’t worth my time. It is true that hidden in there are the same local reports that are posted to Facebook, but I’ll be bored to death by all the other irrelevant news before I find them. The user experience is horrendous.
To actually get at the pertinent news without needing to become a full-time researcher, Facebook was where it was at.
Try Ground News to build yourself a list of sources you like to check directly. It’s a pretty good aggregator.
Lack of local reporting has been an issue since long before these new rules. CBC exists, and it’s really weird to go directly to CTV for news if you’re going to pick only one. That’s the thing that plays silently in the dentist’s office waiting room with scrolling rage bait and, as you say, cats up trees.
Try Ground News to build yourself a list of sources you like to check directly
This particular reporter is the source. For all intents and purposes he is the only one that reports on the area (small community). Ground News seems to only pull from text sources, and it is grabbing essentially nothing. His work is presented as video.
Lack of local reporting has been an issue since long before these new rules.
Well, the reporting is sufficient enough, but not well aggregated outside of Facebook/X. If you work hard you can ultimately find it on CTV properties, but it’s hard to deny that Facebook improved access to the news.
Wow, never heard of this. Thanks!
No free option will prevent a lot of people from jumping on this though.
