JAKARTA – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Tudeau said the government will continue to encourage Meta to comply with new rules regarding the distribution of profits to the journalist sector.
Under the recently passed online news law, large technology companies with 20 million unique monthly users and an annual turnover of US$748 million (Rs. 11.5 trillion) are required to pay Canadian news media.
However, Meta does not agree with these regulations. They even continue to prevent various Canadian media accounts on Facebook from paying compensation. However, the Canadian government has still not given up.
“We will continue to push Meta, which makes billions of dollars in profits, even if it refuses to invest in journalistic rigor and media stability,” Trudeau said, as quoted by Reuters.
Meanwhile, Meta believes they have no obligation to pay for news media. They never force media outlets to upload information to their platform. Instead, all these media outlets decided to use the Meta platform.
“Electrical outlets news chooses to use our free service because it improves its bottom line and the release of today’s final regulations does not change our business decision,” said Rachel Curran, Public Policy Manager at Meta Canada.
In addition to not having a commercial relationship, Meta considers that the news does not bring economic value to his company. So, since August, Meta has started blocking a number of media outlets in different countries.
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