Canada unveiled draft rules on Friday for a law to compel internet giants to pay news outlets, saying it was addressing the tech companies' concerns, but Facebook said it would stick to plans to ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will block news content for users of the platforms in Canada, the company announced Tuesday. The block is in response to a new Canadian law, the ...

Ottawa will keep pushing Meta to comply with a new law requiring large internet companies to pay Canadian news publishers for their content, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, but the ...

Key Background. Canada’s new act is modeled after a similar law passed in Australia in 2021, which also requires companies like Meta and Google to pay a negotiated fee for news content or enter ...

She added, “They would rather block their users from accessing good quality and local news instead of paying their fair share to news organizations.” The standoff in Canada is a near-repeat of ...

Google is testing blocking access to news content for some Canadian users in response to a new Online News Act C-18 bill. It’s designed to force the likes of Google and Meta to pay publishers ...

Google had also threatened to block news access in Canada, but it agreed to continue discussions with the government. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said talks with Meta were at an impasse.