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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing (www.reuters.com)

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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a "reckless" ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

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[-] BURN@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

But they have ceased serving news from canadian outlets, in compliance with the local laws. There’s no way the government can force them to pay out for news links if they won’t serve them at all

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