Google has decided to pay $100 million CAD annually to the government of Canada as part of an agreement by the company to comply with the country's recently passed Online News Act.
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The decision by Meta to block links from news outlets to Canadian audiences comes as the country's Online News Act, which requires they make deals with news media, is now in effect.
Google will remove news links from its products for Canadian audiences due to the passage of the government's Bill C-18 into law which requires Google to make commercial deals with news media.
Meta has announced that it will cut access to news for the Canadian users as the company refused to go along with the government's plan to have social media companies pay publishers for news articles.
Meta is threatening to stop news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada if the proposed Online News Act passes in its current form. Canadian news outlets, however, support the bill.
