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Meta Group began blocking Canadians’ access to media content on Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday (August 1) in response to a new law forcing digital giants to pay publishers.
Links and content posted by Canadian and foreign media “will no longer be visible to people in Canada,” Meta said, stressing that the measure must be fully implemented in the “coming weeks.”
On social media, several Canadians shared screenshots Tuesday showing inaccessible media accounts.
Content shared by Radio-Canada on one of its Facebook pages was blocked minutes after it was posted, the public broadcaster said.
Passed in June, C-18 Online Information Act is modeled after a similar measure introduced in Australia in 2021 and aims to prop up a struggling Canadian media sector.
For its part, Google plans to adopt a similar measure when the law “takes effect”, that is to say in a few months, at a time when several countries are carefully observing the showdown between Ottawa and the giants of Silicon Valley.
