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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing (www.reuters.com)
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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a "reckless" ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canada should run it's own official mastodon or lemmy instance to post canadian news/communications and whatnot. I never undestood how we still depend on American corporations like Twitter and facebook to share news. Like, even for my local govt, if I want to know if there is any road works, water issues and so on, it ends up on facebook only! This is dumb.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canadian governmental entities (at all levels) aren't known for their innovative thinking. Throughout the pandemic, regardless of your position on vaccines, the main fact that it was a group of volunteers in a discord channel that were responsible for the information shows the archaic state of digital communication in Canada. Frankly embarrassing by global comparison.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait is this for real? Source? I have not heard of this, it would be great if this is open to the public during and even after pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They go by Vaccine Hunters. I don't think they are active anymore but you can find their history here: https://vaccinehunters.ca/about