News on platforms is not a legal problem—it’s a business one and it can be solved

News should return to Facebook not because the law compels it, or because Meta wants it back, but because a fair deal makes sense. That is how sustainable and fair markets work in good faith. And that is how a healthy and plural information ecosystem is built with fair allies.

Quality journalism provides something that social platforms, like Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, cannot produce on their own: verified information, professional accountability, and public trust, writes Werner Zitzman, executive director of AMI Colombian News Media Association. Photograph courtesy of Anthony Quintano/Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY WERNER ZITZMANN

April 9, 2026

The debate over Canada’s Online News Act and Meta’s decision to remove news from Facebook and Instagram in this country has often been framed as a regulatory standoff: governments versus platforms, law versus technology, public interest versus corporate power.

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