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Meta’s Twitter Alternative Sees Declining Engagement

The social media platform Threads, owned by Facebook’s Meta and being promoted as a Twitter competitor, is losing more and more users, while its leadership says that new features are coming to remedy the situation. Threads was launched in July and hit a peak of 100 million sign-ups initially. However, it has been on a…


Meta Launches ‘Threads’: App Won’t Let You Delete Account Unless You Also Delete Instagram

Meta’s newly launched Twitter rival, “Threads,” is facing criticism from users due to the app’s restrictions on deleting accounts. “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account,” says the app’s supplemental privacy policy. To create a Threads account, users have to…


Trudeau Says Conflict With Social Media Companies a ‘Dispute Over Democracy’

A few hours after his government announced it was suspending advertising with social media company Meta, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the move was made to defend democracy. “This is not just a dispute over advertising, it’s also a dispute over democracy,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, on July 5. The prime minister…


Ottawa Suspending Its Advertising on Facebook, Instagram as Meta Moves to Block Canadian News

The federal government is suspending all of its advertising on both Facebook and Instagram in response to their parent company, Meta, saying it will block all Canadian news from the platforms later this year once Ottawa’s new Online News Act comes into effect. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez made the announcement while speaking to reporters in…


Canada’s Quebecor to Pull Its Ads From Facebook, Instagram

Telecom and media firm Quebecor said on Wednesday it will pull its ads from Facebook and Instagram, following Meta Platforms’ decision to stop access to news on both the social media platforms in Canada over a law requiring payments to local news publishers. The “Online News Act”, or House of Commons bill C-18, introduced in…


Zuckerberg Launching Twitter Rival Called ‘Threads’

The rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg has just heated up as Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has teased that it’s launching a platform to rival Twitter. Called “Threads,” the Meta-backed microblogging platform is billed as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app,” according to a listing on Apple’s App Store. The listing indicates that…


Cory Morgan: The Battle Created by Bill C-18 Is Pointless and Destructive, and Didn’t Need to Happen

Commentary Now that Canada’s Bill C-18 has made its way through Parliament and has received royal assent, the battle of wills between the government and social media platforms begins in earnest. The regulations packed into C-18 amount to little more than a shakedown of social media platforms on behalf of financially failing legacy media outlets….


Facebook, Instagram to Block News After Canada Adopts Content Fee Law

Meta has announced that it will block access to news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada after the country passed a new law forcing digital platforms to pay content fees to domestic media. The announcement by Meta came shortly after Canada’s Senate passed the “Online News Act,” which forces companies like Facebook and Google to pay…


Meta Tests Blocking News Content for Some Canadian Users in Response to Liberals’ Online News Bill

Meta has begun a test that will temporarily block access to news content for some Canadian users on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in response to the Online News Act, a Liberal government bill, and Canadian publishers are not happy. The legislation, Bill C-18, would require digital giants such as Google and Meta to pay Canadian news organizations…


Zuckerberg: Establishment Asked to Censor COVID-19 Posts That Ended Up Being True

Big Tech firms were asked to censor COVID-19 information that ended up being true, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has assessed. “Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier in the pandemic where there were real health implications, but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions,” Zuckerberg, whose company…