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Canadian users, the company confirmed on Wednesday, in what it says is a test run of a potential response to the government’s onlineAct,” or House of Commons bill C-18, introduced in April by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, laid out rules to force platforms like Meta’s Facebook and“We’re briefly testing potential product responses to Bill C-18 that impact a very small percentage of Canadian users. We run thousands ofspokesperson said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
, which impact a random sampling of less than 4% of the users in Canada, “limit the visibility of Canadian and internationalwill not be intimidated and called it disappointing thatat the local and national levels, and that’s why we introduced the OnlineLast year, Facebook warned that it might block sharing ofon its platform in Canada over concerns about legislation that would compel digital platforms to payA similar Australian law, which took effect in March 2021 after talks with the big tech...
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