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Meta’s news ban in Canada has led to a media disaster. What does that mean for US efforts to wrangle big tech platforms?
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Meta’s news ban in Canada has led to a media disaster. What does that mean for US efforts to wrangle big tech platforms?

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Canada averts a Google news block, US bills in the works

The Online News Act kerfuffle is a symptom of a bigger issue: the power of governments to regulate large tech firms – a fight that is playing out in Canada, the US, and around the world.

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Google throws Trudeau a lifeline

Canada’s Online News Act, introduced last summer to force revenue-sharing on tech giants, backfired badly when Meta decided to block Canadian news outlets from their platforms rather than pay up. But this week brought a turn in fortune.