Maybe don’t rely on a free service from a multi billion dollar American company to disseminate public safety information.

The article doesn’t say whether the Canadian government has offered to not tax Facebook for carrying the links to news articles that the law now requires be taxed.

Meta says users do not come to its platform for news and forcing the company to pay for content shared on its platforms is unsustainable for its business.

I agree with them here, news articles definitely aren’t what I come to Facebook for.

Imagine making a law that could easily screw over non-government funded media and then being shocked when the media gets screwed over because of said law.

If Canada wants to post advertisements on Facebook, they already have an avenue to do this.

People aren’t going to miss our on wildfire news is they don’t see it on Facebook. SMH