One year ago, Facebook and Instagram banned news in this country. A new report gauges the effects.
by Sarah Krichel
August 5, 2024
A new report is highlighting the ghost town that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has made of news publishers on its platforms Facebook and Instagram one year after its ban on Canadian news content.
The Media Ecosystem Observatory, a collaboration between the Montreal-based McGill University and the University of Toronto, released the report on Aug. 1.
The report — the first to take a comprehensive look at the impact of the news ban — found that one-third of previously social-media-active local news outlets in Canada (212 total) are now inactive.
It also found that engagement (likes, comments and shares) with news on Facebook and Instagram specifically — the most-used and third-most-used social media platforms in Canada, respectively — is down 85 per cent.
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