The U.S. tech giant follows Meta pulling content from Facebook and Instagram north of the border after Bill C-18, or the country’s Online News Act, became law to force payment for local journalism.
has made good on a threat to pull its Google News Service in Canada after Bill C-18 — legislation designed to get U.S. digital tech giants to pay local publishers for news snippets shared or repurposed on their platforms — became law in the country.
“As a result, we have informed the government that we have made the difficult decision that when the law takes effect we will be removing links to Canadian news from our Search, News, and Discover products and will no longer be able to operate Google News Showcase in Canada,” Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet, said on Google’s Canada blog page on Thursday.
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