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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good. You're not supposed to go to Facebook to be informed.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you mean? The same people who get "news" from Facebook will still get "news" from Facebook. It will just no longer involve any actual media companies. Think blogger, pseudo-news and AI generated content - fake news gonna fake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No American or international news either, says Meta

Canadians will no longer be able to view or post news content on Facebook or Instagram. News outlets, including international ones, will start having their content blocked on those platforms

https://apple.news/A5nT7dG6fQFyBF5H4MlZjOA

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well that's a bit of a relief at least

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And they'll have to go to actual sources to fact check.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Bold of you to assume that fact checking is even in the repertoire of the chud brained

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My point is with this legislation we effectively removed news outlets from the "source pool", and all the remaining sources you can rely on Facebook is the questionable ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What did I do now? Does McDonald's have news I can read?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They sure do. Did you know there will be new toys in the happy meal soon?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's right, you're supposed to go down to the local coffee shop to find out what is going on.