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[–] habanhero@lemmy.ca 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.

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 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

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Well that's a bit of a relief at least

[–] Tigbitties@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] subignition@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

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

[–] habanhero@lemmy.ca 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.