I don't understand why people are saying this will reduce misinformation. The fringe sites peddling things like genocide denial aren't news organizations to begin with, so users will still be able to share their content freely. It'll become harder for other people to counter the misinformation by linking to legitimate news sources.

This is great news. Not allowing Facebook to pretend it's some sort of valid place to find information will be a net positive for Canada. Not being able to find news through google easily will be annoying, but I'll just go directly to several news sites instead.

As a Canadian I am happy with this news. I am not on Facebook but I know many who are and the amount of misinformation they spread is crazy. In most cases their source of misinformation is Facebook. So I am glad this is happening.

i'm sure Canadians are really peeved about this one, it'd really suck if Facebook weren't allowed to continue promoting far-right misinformation, genocide denial, anti-vaccine bullshit and other goodies into everyone's feed

Happy to see Meta booted from the industry, but I'm a bit concerned about Google no longer indexing news articles here...

This is why Meta is batting its eyes at the Fediverse.

"You really want those new millions of viewers (with a toxic dose of murderous disinformation with it), doncha, hun?" 🥰😘

Artifact was smart. They dedicated a whole tab for Canadian news

Facebook already did this in Australia, then caved.

So is Meta just not going to display/embed news in Canada anymore or is this a temporary measure until they roll out their plan to pay publishers?