Canadian news publishers want the Competition Bureau to investigate Meta’s move to block Canadian news content from Facebook and Instagram
The company began blocking news on its platforms last week in response to the Liberal government’s Online News Act. The law would force Meta and Google to reach commercial deals with news publishers to share revenues for news stories that appear on their platforms. In a press release Tuesday morning, the news publishers accused Meta of abusing its dominant market position.
“Meta’s practices are clearly designed to discipline Canadian news companies, prevent them from participating in and accessing the advertising market, and significantly reduce their visibility to Canadians on social media channels,” they said. “Meta’s anticompetitive conduct, which has attracted the attention of regulators around the world, will strengthen its already dominant position in advertising and social media distribution and harm Canadian journalism.
They said Meta “effectively has substantial control over access to Canadian news” because Facebook and Instagram combined hold more than 70 per cent of the social media market in Canada.Article content In their letter to Competition commissioner Matthew Boswell, they said Meta has chosen to harm news organizations, and that its actions threaten the viability of the news industry in Canada.
“Its exclusionary and disciplinary conduct is aimed at preventing or severely limiting Canadian news organizations’ access to a significant portion of their audiences and significantly reducing visits to their news websites and applications,” the news publishers argued.
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