minus-squareeternacht@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Mark Zuckerberg banned news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada. Jeff Ballingall, a conservative operative, saw an opportunity. He runs ''Canada Proud'', a facebook page publishing lies linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoGoogle does pay Canadian news companies to show their content. Part of the issue is that Facebook and Instagram can show news stories without linking out to them, so users don’t get the opportunity to see the news companies’ ads or to sign up for a subscription. linkfedilink
minus-squareeternacht@programming.devtoScience Fiction@lemmy.world•In the mood for engineering / competence porn. What are your favourite novels / series?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 months agoI’d say it definitely counts as competence porn though, it’s got tons of high-stakes hacking and problem solving. linkfedilink
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Google does pay Canadian news companies to show their content.
Part of the issue is that Facebook and Instagram can show news stories without linking out to them, so users don’t get the opportunity to see the news companies’ ads or to sign up for a subscription.