Canadian officials say the federal government will suspend all of its advertising on Facebook and Instagram following Meta’s drastic decision to block access to news links in the region as retaliation to the country’s passage of the Online News Act. Major Canadian corporations like Quebecor and Cogeco Communication have similarly pledged to cease advertising on Meta platforms to rebuke the company. It increasingly looks like Meta’s commitment not to pay news publishers for accessing their materi
Meta is sticking to its guns—the social networking giant says it will follow through with its threat to cut off Canadians’ access to news on Facebook and Instagram following the passage of the hotly contested Online News Act. The news shutdown could significantly rattle news access for the more than 20 million Canadians who use the social networks, choke news outlets’ revenues, and set the stage for similar policy skirmishes around the world.