The company plans to cut off news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada. If Australia is any guide, the blackout likely will be short-lived, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.
And I actually think it will be an improvement to facebook to not have any news posted there. No more disinformation articles that conform to the biases of various family members being shoved into the feed.
Don’t know if it’s enough to get me to use facebook again (let’s not get crazy) but it seems like it’ll better without “news” on there.
So that makes it easier for the government to call their bluff.
Also I think Parliament went on recess just after passing the law. So maybe there will be no news on facebook for the summer. It’ll be interesting to see whether other Canadians react as I do and think “it’s better this way”.
It will likely be worse on the disinformation front as they’ll only be blocking posts to certain media outlets, leaving everything else wide open for random blogs that didn’t check their facts.
And of those that are blocked they’ll make highly misleading stuff about how they are being censored and post the link using a picture of the link or putting spaces between the characters and so on like they do for all the other disallowed content.
But outside of misinformation I think it will be a positive change all around.
Canadian here, and yeah I agree completely.
And I actually think it will be an improvement to facebook to not have any news posted there. No more disinformation articles that conform to the biases of various family members being shoved into the feed.
Don’t know if it’s enough to get me to use facebook again (let’s not get crazy) but it seems like it’ll better without “news” on there.
So that makes it easier for the government to call their bluff.
Also I think Parliament went on recess just after passing the law. So maybe there will be no news on facebook for the summer. It’ll be interesting to see whether other Canadians react as I do and think “it’s better this way”.
It will likely be worse on the disinformation front as they’ll only be blocking posts to certain media outlets, leaving everything else wide open for random blogs that didn’t check their facts.
And of those that are blocked they’ll make highly misleading stuff about how they are being censored and post the link using a picture of the link or putting spaces between the characters and so on like they do for all the other disallowed content.
But outside of misinformation I think it will be a positive change all around.
Faux news and Breitbart will still be there. Just not the mainstream Canadian news sources.
Not that it changes anything for me, I nuked facebook years ago.
The misinformation and disinformation is not for the informed … it’s for the ignorant and lazy
When you are aware of the blatant disinformation and never ending conspiracy theories and far out ideologies … you stay away from it all
When you are unaware or just don’t care and just enjoy living in your own deluded reality … you drown yourself in the disinformation