Facebook threatens to block news content over Canada's revenue-sharing bill

Home Tech News Facebook threatens to block news content over Canada’s revenue-sharing bill The Online News Act laid out rules to force platforms like Meta’s Facebook and Alphabet’s Google to negotiate commercial deals. Facebook warned on Friday that it may block sharing of news content on its platform in Canada over concerns about legislation that would compel digital platforms to pay news publishers.The Online News Act, introduced in April, laid out rules to force platforms like Meta’s Facebook and Alphabet’s Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content, in a move similar to a ground-breaking law passed in Australia last year. The legislation is under consideration at a parliamentary committee, to which the U.S. social media company said it has not been invited to share its concerns. “We believe the Online News Act misrepresents the relationship between platforms and news publishers, and we call on the government to review its approach,” Marc Dinsdale, head of media partnerships at Meta Canada, said in a blog post.”In the face of adverse legislation based on false assumptions that defy the logic of how Facebook operates, we believe it’s important to be transparent about the possibility that we may be…
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