Several B.C. news outlets say their social media accounts with Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and new offering Threads, have cordoned off their accounts.
It follows Meta’s June announcement to end access to news on its social media sites for all Canadian users before Bill C-18, the Online News Act, comes into force.
The law will force tech giants like Meta and Google to pay news outlets for posting their journalism on their platforms.
“Meta, the colossus that owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, flexed its muscle and we at The Tyee felt the sting,” wrote David Beers, the founding editor of The Tyee, an online magazine, in an article on July
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