[sattoshi]

Moot point because Trudeau basically banned all news from being shared on Facebook

[bhouston]

> Moot point because Trudeau basically banned all news from being shared on Facebook

You can still follow individual reporters posting their own content. For example I can access both https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/ or https://www.instagram.com/clarissawardcnn/, etc.

But I can not access the organization pages like https://www.instagram.com/cnn/

[throw1230]

Trudeau didn't ban news on FB, FB banned news posted to Canada because they don't want to pay publishers.

[sattoshi]

Surrounded by scandals, Trudeau passed a law that had an oh-so-unintentional side-effect of hiding news from many people’s primary news source.

It’s hard to not be cynical about it.

[wvenable]

I can't say I miss it; Facebook is actually usable now and shouldn't be anyone's primary news source.

[passwordoops]

The dude lurches from one sound bite to another with policy so shallow it barely looks at first order effects.

I'm sure the impact was fully unintentional. Very welcome after the fact. But still unintentional

[shiroiushi]

Expecting Facebook or Google to pay publishers is like going back in time to 1970 and saying that a newsstand should be paying newspaper publishers for the privilege of selling their papers.

[mikehodgson]

Google agreed to the terms. They're paying $100 million per year to the Canadian Journalism Collective.

[not2b]

No. Canada passed a law requiring Facebook to pay news media for links. Meta said no, we aren't going to do that and banned news instead.

You can argue that this was a predictable response by Meta or that it was a stupid law, but it was not a ban.