Facebook Dropping Facebook News in France, UK, and Germany

Facebook has announced that Facebook News will be going by the wayside in 4 European countries, throwing another wrench into link taxes.

One of the concepts pushed by link tax supporters around the wo

https://www.freezenet.ca/facebook-dropping-facebook-news-in-france-uk-and-germany/

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Do Regular Users Miss the Presence of News On Facebook? Maybe Not

The dropping of news links on Facebook has certainly been noticeable, but do users miss the news? Maybe not.

With news links disappearing on Facebook, it marked the end of the debate on whether or not it was all a big fancy bluff. Any hope that the

https://www.freezenet.ca/do-regular-users-miss-the-presence-of-news-on-facebook-maybe-not/

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Bill C-18 Collateral Damage Victim, Jeff Green, Comments on His News Site Being Blocked on Meta

Jeff Green of the Frontenac News has spoken out about Bill C-18. This after Meta was forced to block links to their site.

The warnings of blocked news links as a result of

https://www.freezenet.ca/bill-c-18-collateral-damage-victim-jeff-green-comments-on-his-news-site-being-blocked-on-meta/

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"But the blame for this disappointing result needs to go fully on the Canadian government. This law is bad. The entire structure of it is an attack on the #OpenWeb, suggesting that governments can force some companies to pay other companies for sending them traffic. That makes no sense in any world."

#Meta Begins The Process Of Ending #NewsLinks In #Canada | Techdirt | Mike Masnick
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Media Moves the Talking Point Deck Chairs as Their Facebook Audience Ship Sinks

After Facebook began rolling out the news link blocks, the media tries hammering their talking points one last time.

It's curtains for the Canadian media getting a large portion of their audience from Facebook and Instagram.

https://www.freezenet.ca/media-moves-the-talking-point-deck-chairs-as-their-facebook-audience-ship-sinks/

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Reports Continue to Roll in of Publishers Seeing Their Links Blocked on Instagram

The damage caused by Bill C-18 is already starting to be felt on Instagram as publishers see their news links blocked.

With Meta announcing that they will be ending the support for news links in respons

https://www.freezenet.ca/reports-continue-to-roll-in-of-publishers-seeing-their-links-blocked-on-instagram/

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No Deal! Meta Turns Down Canadian Governments Offer to Water Down Bill C-18

The government watered down Bill C-18 to entice the platforms back. Meta has reportedly rejected the offer.

Pretty much everything the government has done, apart from passing the bill in the first pla

https://www.freezenet.ca/no-deal-meta-turns-down-canadian-governments-offer-to-water-down-bill-c-18/

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Google Announces it Will Be Ending Support for Canadian News Links

It appears that government talks have failed. Now, Google has announced that it will be ending support for Canadian news links.

Over the weekend, we reported on last ditch efforts by the government to try and conv

https://www.freezenet.ca/google-announces-it-will-be-ending-support-for-canadian-news-links/

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As Bill C-18 Passes House of Commons, Meta Announces News Links Will Be Blocked

Bill C-18 passed the second to last vote. In response, Facebook announced that news links in Canada will be blocked.

The "finding out" phase of Bill C-18 appears to be a go. Early on this month, Meta announced that it wou

https://www.freezenet.ca/as-bill-c-18-passes-house-of-commons-meta-announces-news-links-will-be-blocked/

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Big Media Previews “Finding Out” As Meta Tests Blocking Canadian News Links

Big media was f***ing around with the Bill C-18 link tax. Now it will preview finding out as Meta test blocks news links.

Canada's link tax, Bill C-18, is currently working its way through the Canadian senate. Experts, observers, and or

https://www.freezenet.ca/big-media-previews-finding-out-as-meta-tests-blocking-canadian-news-links/

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How Bill C-18 Backers are Placing Way too Much Value on News on Platforms

Bill C-18 backers seem to think that the whole world revolves around news. This is... not the case.

It may be odd to read a news website saying that news is over-valued, but in the context of Bill C-18 and large news publications trying

https://www.freezenet.ca/how-bill-c-18-backers-are-placing-way-too-much-value-on-news-on-platforms/

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Facebook Reiterates That They Will Probably Drop News Links in Canada in Response to Bill C-18

Facebook has recently repeated their comments that they will probably drop news links if Bill C-18 is passed as-is.

Last month, Facebook followed through with their warnings and said that if Bill C-18 is p

https://www.freezenet.ca/facebook-reiterates-that-they-will-probably-drop-news-links-in-canada-in-response-to-bill-c-18/

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Canada Was Warned: Meta (Facebook) to Block News Links if Bill C-18 Not Amended

Meta/Facebook has confirmed that it will block news links if Bill C-18 is not amended. It's the latest warning from them.

Facebook has already repeatedly warned that it is considering blocking news links in Canada should Bill C-18 be left

https://www.freezenet.ca/canada-was-warned-meta-facebook-to-block-news-links-if-bill-c-18-not-amended/

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Google Summoned Before Government for Test Blocking News Links as Warned

Canada's link tax law (Bill C-18) is on the ropes and MP's have summoned Google over their test. It's over the worlds most predictable move.

The Canadian government is quickly running out of options in the Bill C-18l

https://www.freezenet.ca/google-summoned-before-government-for-test-blocking-news-links-as-warned/

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No Canadian Media and Justine Trudeau, Google is Not Blocking Access to News. Just Links

Big Media's Big Lie is now being replaced by Big Media's Big Lie 2.0 by saying that Canadians are being blocked from news.

The disinformation pumped out by big media outlets have kicked into overdrive.

In earlier parts

https://www.freezenet.ca/no-canadian-media-and-justine-trudeau-google-is-not-blocking-access-to-news-just-links/

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Canada Was Warned: Google Begins Testing Blocking News Links in Canada

For months, Bill C-18 supporters dismissed threats to block news links as bluffs. Google is now testing blocking those news links.

The link taxes were never a law that was going to end well. Today, we are learning of a very predictable development. Goo

https://www.freezenet.ca/canada-was-warned-google-begins-testing-blocking-news-links-in-canada/

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