General Assembly 2008 Country Report: Canada
Inter American Press Association
5 November 2008
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It is bad enough that police arrested a journalist for doing her job, but it is outrageous that prosecutors even considered pursuing the charges against Brandi Morin, said RSF.
Since this Op-Ed was written, Meta (the parent company of Instagram and Facebook) has announced that it has begun to remove access to Canadian news — and the ability of its Canadian users to share Canadian news — from its platforms.
Just as it did in Australia, Meta is letting the world know that it prefers to remove information rather than pay for the journalistic content it profits from.