News has been removed from Facebook and Instagram after the Canadian government told Meta to pay publishers, leaving consumers unable to access vital information during wildfires.
“That's correct, Mr. Julian,” Curran replied. “We're working very hard to make sure we don't make the same mistakes in Canada that we made in Australia when we removed news from our platform. We're working very hard to make sure that we don't take down pages we don't mean to take down and we don't take down pages that don't fit the definition of ‘news.’”
Clegg, the former deputy prime minister of the UK and current president of global affairs at Meta, had previously said in athat Facebook users don’t use the platform for news, adding that news represents just 3 percent of the content they see on their Facebook feeds. Meta has responded to criticism of its blocks by saying Canadians can simply read the news on outlets’ sites.
And it remains a reality, especially in smaller communities, that platforms like Facebook are a primary conduit for information. “No matter what Facebook says, a certain percentage of our country gets their news from Facebook,” says Jeff Elgie, CEO of Canadian online news chain Village Media. “Even though they do a lot of other things on Facebook, the reality of [C-18 and the Meta block] is that there’s a lot of people that are no longer going to be exposed to news, and that’s scary for society.
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