On Friday, some CHEK News followers may have noticed that within Canada, Meta is blocking access to all CHEK News posts on Meta Instagram page. The ban also affected the CHEK community Instagram account. CHEK media.
As of Friday morning, even urgent public information from CHEK News was no longer visible to some visitors in the country.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, previously announced plans to block news links on Facebook as well. Google also announced that it would remove links to Canadian news sites from Google News and Google Discovery.
The move by both tech companies is in response to a federal bill that would require the largest social media platforms to pay news organizations for news content on their platforms.
While Meta and Google didn’t announce timelines for when Canadian news sites would begin to be blocked, some CHEK News viewers saw the bans on Instagram as early as Friday.
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