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by gumballindie 1057 days ago
This is excellent news. For one, there will be a significant drop in fear mongering click baiting news, and then news publishers will be starved of traffic. The industry needs a hard reset. Would love for this to happen in the UK as well.
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> For one, there will be a significant drop in fear mongering click baiting news

This will do no such thing. News from international orgs (just as capable, if not more, of clickbait and bias) will still be shown to Canadians.

> For one, there will be a significant drop in fear mongering click baiting news. The industry needs a hard reset.

While most news orgs need schooling, what a hard reset typically means is some action that would expand the growing news vacuum absolutely.

What we see filling the existing vacuum is worse than worthless content. It is patently false content (often posing as local news), specifically crafted to advance harm-based agendas. That would seem to indicate a hard reset isn't the way forward.