According to The Globe and Mail, Canadian government officials are currently in talks with Meta about restoring Canadian news publishers to Facebook, as part of revisions to its controversial Online News Act. In order to underline this, Meta blocked all Canadian news outlets back in 2023, in order to prove that it doesn’t actually need their content the way that the bill suggests. And seemingly, that has proven true, with Canadian officials now looking to restore publishers in Meta’s apps, as a means to bring more readers to these publications. Sure, but it doesn’t need that content, which is the fundamental flaw in such approaches. The same has been tried in Australia, and various other regions, but the impetus behind such rules largely seems to be pressure from big local publishers, who seek assistance from government to minimize their ad losses.