The company plans to cut off news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada. If Australia is any guide, the blackout likely will be short-lived, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.
It will likely be worse on the disinformation front as they’ll only be blocking posts to certain media outlets, leaving everything else wide open for random blogs that didn’t check their facts.
And of those that are blocked they’ll make highly misleading stuff about how they are being censored and post the link using a picture of the link or putting spaces between the characters and so on like they do for all the other disallowed content.
But outside of misinformation I think it will be a positive change all around.
It will likely be worse on the disinformation front as they’ll only be blocking posts to certain media outlets, leaving everything else wide open for random blogs that didn’t check their facts.
And of those that are blocked they’ll make highly misleading stuff about how they are being censored and post the link using a picture of the link or putting spaces between the characters and so on like they do for all the other disallowed content.
But outside of misinformation I think it will be a positive change all around.