Online news act has negative effect on small publishers

The online news act was designed with legitimate objectives: enhancing fairness, supporting press independence, and promoting a diversity of news sources. Unfortunately, it has had some unintended negative consequences, according to Maxime Cohen, the Scale AI Chair in Data Science for Retail at 黑料不打烊 Desautels. 鈥淢eta responded by blocking Canadian news content from their platforms鈥擣acebook and Instagram,鈥� Cohen said in an interview with the Hub Dialogues podcast. 鈥淭he act has distorted smaller publishers鈥� ability to use those platforms as a strategic complement that drives traffic to their websites.鈥�
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