Meta has warned the Canadian government that it will pull news links from Facebook and Instagram if plans go ahead to make social media platforms pay publishers for their content.
Bill C-18 would require companies such as Meta and Google to strike deals with Canadian media companies to pay for linking to their content online - potentially hundreds of millions of dollars per year. It's already passed through the House of Commons, and is now being considered by the Senate’s Committee on Transport and Communications.
"With a heavy heart we choose the latter. As the Minister of Canadian Heritage has said, this is a business decision. It’s not something we want to do, but it is what we will have to do." And while the proposals have been compared to similar plans in Australia, they go further, he says, making Canada the first democracy in the world to charge for links to web pages.
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