While Bill C-18, the Online News Act, was designed with the aim of having social media companies take a more responsible role in how news is shared online, Facebook chose to ban news links entirely. This then had the unintended effect of elevating our ridiculous website to a position of godlike authority over the news that reaches Canadians’ eyes.
From here on out Facebook will have no more CBC News, no more CNN News, heck, no more Rebel News, and they’re way more fake than we’ve ever tried to be! Serves them right for calling themselves “news” instead of a “primarily online Canadian news satire publication”, which is what we technically are, which is why we’re now the only game in town!
WE CONTROL HOW YOU PLEBEIANS PERCEIVE THE WORLD!!! YOU CANNOT RESIST!!!
I honestly don’t know what they expected here, this would be an absolute nightmare to implement, and it’s Facebook so people are just going to get their news from political memes anyways.
Facebook already pays for Australian news content, they banned it from the platform at first then came back and said “Ok, sorry, we’re ready to negotiate now 🥺”
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I honestly don’t know what they expected here, this would be an absolute nightmare to implement, and it’s Facebook so people are just going to get their news from political memes anyways.
Facebook already pays for Australian news content, they banned it from the platform at first then came back and said “Ok, sorry, we’re ready to negotiate now 🥺”
Maybe they’ll do the same for Canada, or maybe we aren’t profitable lol
We’re 15m more than them, if they’re profitable enough then don’t worry, we’re profitable enough.