Time for Meta to pay up or face must-carry laws

As Meta lobbies Ottawa on the return of news to Facebook, policymakers should know that must-carry approaches alone will not solve the challenges of disinformation and propaganda, or fix the news media's monopolized markets or broken economic structures.
Federal Culture Minister Marc Miller, pictured in a Hill scrum. The government has said it's been having ongoing talks with Meta about online news coming back to Facebook.

Public concern about the power of social media, search, and streaming platforms to shape and manipulate public discourse—along with their control over digital advertising—has recently been validated by a range of courts and competition authorities which have determined t...

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