The Globe and Mail: Alisson Lévesque, a spokesperson for Canadian Identity Minister Marc Miller, confirmed that preliminary talks between Meta and the Heritage Department are taking place.
“We want news back. How do we go there is a question mark and that’s why we are having conversations,” she said. “We are looking at how to get there.”
Meta has consistently said it will not pay for news posted on its platforms. The company would have to be exempted from the Online News Act to avoid a legal obligation to pay into Canada’s journalism industry…