OTTAWA — Tech giant Meta has learned from the mistakes it made blocking online news from Facebook in Australia, when it accidentally limited access to…
“Some of the things that were mistakenly scoped in Australia, we’re working very hard to make sure we do not do that this time,” said Curran, who was a policy director to former prime minister Stephen Harper.
The company says less than three per cent of what people see in their Facebook feeds are posts with links to news articles and that many of its users believe that is already “too much” news.Article content “You leave out the part that your company is engaged in monopolistic practices that takes the vast majority of ad revenue so that ‘free advertising’ is worthless,” said Bittle, who is parliamentary secretary to the Canadian Heritage Minister.
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