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Meta won’t negotiate with publishers, will end Facebook news in Canada - ArsTechnica
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People aren't seeing the forest for the trees here. Yeah, nobody likes Meta, but the larger impact of Bill C18 will be that sources like Google and other large aggregators will stop allowing links to legitimate news sources, and instead be flooded by blogspam and misinformation.
People won't suddenly be navigating to The Toronto Star when they don't get news on the latest updates in say the Corona virus in their immediate Google results, they'll just continue to click on through to whatever sketchy source manages to SEO their way to the top instead.
This is a problem that the "legitimate news sources" created and they will need to ask to remove the laws they asked for in the first place if they want their viewership to come back.