Canada’s Online News Act, which cleared the senate on Thursday, lays out rules requiring platforms like Meta and Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news organisations for their content.

Google called the bill “unworkable” in its current form and said it was seeking to work with the government to find a “path forward”.

Meta has called the law “fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work”.

The Online News Act is expected to take effect in Canada in six months.

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    1 year ago

    Maybe not getting your news from Facebook isn’t such a bad thing?