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Forest fires: Trudeau makes serious allegations against Facebook

by Edie Jenkins
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized Internet company Meta during a press conference on Monday (local time) for no longer showing Facebook users in the country local information about the wildfire situation.
“Instead of ensuring local journalists are paid fairly to keep Canadians informed about things like wildfires, Facebook blocks information on its pages,” the 51-year-old added.

Fires in Canada are destroying large areas of Canada. A wall of fire stands before the city of Yellowknife and threatens to burn it down.

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In early August, Meta began no longer displaying local news on profiles accessible from Canada on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The context is the planned introduction of the so-called online information law in Canada.

The law is actually intended to help small media companies, in particular, demand payments from social networks like Facebook to redistribute their news content. Meta then announced that this content would no longer be accessible to Canadian Facebook users until the law was introduced.

The American company Facebook is endangering the security of its users and democracy. Two journalists made the accusation after discussions with around 400 company employees.

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The online information law is expected to come into force in December. Canada has been battling devastating fires in several parts of the country for months, making it the worst known wildfire season in the country’s history.

Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in several affected regions of British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. In much of northwest America, air quality also declined noticeably due to the smoke circulating there.

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