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Meta's news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada (www.businessinsider.com)

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Meta's news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada::Canadians are calling on Meta to lift its news ban so they can share news about the wildfires in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia.

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[–] Whirlybird 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They stopped them from profiting off someone else’s work without paying for it.

No, they stopped them from allowing users to post links to news articles that redirected users to the news sites where they would get ad revenue etc. The government dun goofed because all they did was give news sites less ad revenue.

Why should facebook have to pay when a user posts a link to a news site for other users to see and visit? That makes no sense. I have no doubt the news sites would have had people just farming link posts to their sites to generate money from Meta.