Saturday July 1, 2023 | 10:04 a.m. WIB

Faisal Maliki Baskoro / FMB

Jakarta, Beritasatu.com – Google tells Canadian government it will block Canadian news media articles from appearing in search results and other products in the country following the adoption of a new law (online information law) which would force Google to pay fees to news companies.

The new Bill C-18 was adopted last week. According to estimates by Canada’s parliamentary budget watchdog, the legislation would provide Canadian newsrooms with $329 million in revenue annually, but that revenue is unlikely to materialize. This law requires companies like Meta and Google to pay media outlets when they provide links to information in search results or feeds itself they.

The move, which will also exclude Canadian media from Google’s News and Discover products, could have a major impact on publishers who rely on Google Search to attract readers who support their businesses. This change appears to have started to affect a number of users.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, one of Canada’s largest news organizations, said it would “encourage Canadians to go directly to the websites they trust to get their news.” Newsrooms in Canada and around the world have been in decline for years. According to researchers, from 2008 to 2018, 216 Canadian news agencies closed their doors.

“Tech giants would rather spend money modifying their platforms to block information from Canada than pay a fraction of the billions of advertising dollars they generate,” Pablo Rodriguez, MP, said last Thursday d’Honoré-Mercier, on Twitter. Google reported search revenue of $40.69 billion in the second quarter of 2023.