News links from Canadian content producers, like Lake 88 on LanarkLeedsToday.ca, are now being blocked on Facebook and Instagram.
My Broadcasting Corporation (Lake 88’s parent company) President Jon Pole was blunt in his assessment of the move.
And Pole says our commitment to local news isn’t going to change.
The ban from Meta is in response to Bill C-18, which says in part that services like Facebook and Google should be sharing ad revenue with Canadian news media.
You can listen to the entire interview with Jon Pole by pressing play in the player below.
i really think local radio shows are a necessary part of a community. the world is basically destroying itself by making big corporations, free trade bad news all over the world immediately etc. lets get local folks,business,groups etc be interviewed and tell good sucess storys i had a local show on trent radio to;d jokes played local groups wrote and told short storys kennys exercise show told folks to take the same half hour to rake a break walk arpund for exercise and mentallygo over what you accopmlished last week and what your nexr week plans are i played local bands tp;d folks to try something out of their comfort zone as i said on my show make someone smileken