CBC Says Canada Is “Canary In The Coal Mine” As The Pubcaster Predicts Meta & Alphabet Will Block News Content In Other Countries
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Meta and Alphabet will pull back from news distribution in more countries if forced to pay for content, the CEO of leading Canadian public network CBC/Radio Canada has predicted.
Catherine Tait told Deadline she “absolutely believes” globally-focused social media giants are prepared to stop linking to news content from organizations around the world, despite the “general growth of disinformation” on the internet.
The news comes as California seeks to introduce legislation that would require platforms to pay news outlets monthly usage fees, and as the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which will provide protections to newspapers, broadcast stations and digital journalism outlets and give them more market power in the face of competition for advertising from the digital giants.
It also follows Meta and Alphabet choosing to stop hosting news sites in Canada and Meta’s announcement earlier this month that in December it would ‘deprecate’ Facebook News in the UK, Germany and France.
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