Canada leaves door open to regulating Meta’s Threads platform
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The online news act has since sparked a tit-for-tat relationship between digital giants Meta and Google and the federal government.
Canada’s Heritage Minister is leaving the door open to regulating new social media platform Threads under a bill forcing Google and Meta to pay publishers for content they link to or repurpose.
Asked Wednesday whether he had given any thought to capturing Meta’s new social network in the Online News Act known as Bill C-18, Pablo Rodriguez said, “that’s going to be eventually included in the regulation.”
“It could be captured by the bill. We’re looking at that,” he said.
“We don’t know yet, but it’s going to be more precise as we go into regulations.”
The text and images platform has garnered at least 100 million users since it sprang up last Wednesday, after the act targeting Meta properties Facebook and Instagram along with Google’s search engine and news products received royal assent on June 22.
The act has since sparked a tit-for-tat relationship between the digital giants and the federal government.
The two tech companies, who lobbied against the legislation, have promised to block access to news from Canadian publishers, while Rodriguez has refused to back down on seeking compensation for Canada’s journalism industry.
In his latest salvo, he pulled the federal government’s $10 million in annual advertising spend from Meta’s platforms last week.
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