Discovering news articles and videos on Facebook and Instagram will soon become a relic of the past, as Meta announced it is officially ending news availability in Canada.

Canadians no longer able to share or view news articles and other content by publishers and broadcasters, including international outlets. Online News Act requires tech giants to compensate Canadian news outlets for content shared on their platforms.

  • Woofcat@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    How is it destroying a public good?

    The public good is being destroyed by themselves. They’ve been acquired and are running 90% AP Wire service pieces. My local news in a top 10 CMA area is basically nothing but opinion pieces.

    Our news has been declining for years as people have moved away from a subscription model. People don’t wake up on Saturday morning and read a paper cover to cover anymore and they have failed to adapt.

    • Feirdro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s like you’re saying, to a man who has been gut shot, “you should just adapt more. “ — There’s no route for them to adapt. Corruption in small and big cities is growing, and there is no one to shed light on it.

      • Woofcat@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        So what you’re saying is there is no model besides complete subsidy for news to exist?

        It would be impossible for them to you know build a subscription model where you get access to all of their news sites for one fee? Kinda like credit unions do with their ATM networks.

        Perhaps offering better value to consumers and incentivize upsells rather than demote them. As someone who had a paper version of the economist they tried /real/ hard to convert me to digital only. Which is a far worse value proposition.