Fires in Canada are destroying large areas of Canada. A wall of fire hangs over the city of Yellowknife, threatening to burn it down.
08/19/2023 | 01:32 minutes
Meta had begun stripping local information on its Facebook and Instagram platforms from profiles retrieved in Canada in early August. The background is the planned introduction of the so-called Online Information Act in Canada.
The law is meant to help small media companies in particular to demand payment for social networks like Facebook to deliver their news content. Meta then announced that this content would no longer be available to Canadian Facebook users until the legislation took effect.
The American Facebook group is endangering user safety and democracy. Two journalists raise this accusation – after discussions with around 400 employees of the company.
04.10.2021 | 03:17 minutes
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in several affected areas in the provinces of British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. In much of Northwestern America, air quality has also noticeably declined due to the smoke circulating there.
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