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News Is Blocked on Instagram and Facebook in Canada. Here’s What Fills the Void. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] dwazou@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Meet Jeff Ballingall. He runs ''Canada Proud'', a popular facebook page.

From the article:

Canada Proud often posts news updates, citing mainstream news sources that are barred from sharing their content on Facebook. The posts sometime add misleading details not found in the original reports, according to a review by The Times.

One of its posts this month said Markey Carney had suspended his campaign because of “connections with China” and cited a major Canadian news outlet, Global News, as its source. But the Global News article didn't mention connections to China

Canada Proud, which describes itself as a “grass-roots group of Canadians” concerned about the country’s direction, is run by Mobilize Media Group, a public affairs firm that has worked for Conservative Party candidates.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/technology/canada-election-facebook-instagram-meta.html

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 23 hours ago

Markey Carney

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This was such a huge own goal. They need to fix this asap.

I'm not saying put things back the way they were, but stop the disincentive for real news. Maybe tax social media and subsidise journalism, or otherwise regulate them in some way.

[–] SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago

People need to seperate what happened to quantify the win and losses of the actions.

The original bill was intended for news corporation to get a fair cut for their content. Even with just Google signing on for a 100 million was a significant success.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/google-online-news-act-exemption-1.7422690

For accessibility to news. Having less access to news for people always a bad thing. Having little to no regulations for modern media has also been a huge failure for almost all governments globally.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Facebook was always crap. It's a propaganda tool masquerading as enterprise.

Maybe tax social media and subsidise journalism, or otherwise regulate them in some way.

That's what they did.

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, they tried to tax links to news, so facebook just took the links away.

I'm saying tax or regulate the platform itself.

Edit: to give a practical example off the top of my head: tariff foreign advertising services targeting Canadians (or even more broadly), use that to subsidise media.