“It’s a business decision that has to be taken by the platform,” Rodriguez said in October. She was referring to Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s response last fall to questions about whether the government was trying to prevent the outcome of companies blocking news content. “As the minister of Canadian heritage said, how we choose to comply with the Online News Act is a business decision we must make,”spokesperson Lisa Laventure said in a statement.
Meta did not answer questions on Monday regarding the summons, saying it would be responding directly to the committee. It also agreed to request internal and external documents from Meta and from Google, which recently blocked news access for some Canadian users to test out a possible response to Bill C-18 - with some critics calling the committee’s request a violation of privacy and a targeted “shakedown.” The House of Commons heritage committee agreed on Monday to summon Zuckerberg, the company’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, and the head of Meta Canada, Chris Saniga, to appear at an upcoming meeting. The head of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce says a Liberal committee motion seeking internal documents from Google and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is "undemocratic." THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ng Han Guan The legislation, also known as Bill C-18, would require tech giants to pay Canadian media companies for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online.Ī woman walks past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, Monday, Nov. The decision comes a week after the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, announced it would block news if the Liberal government’s Online News Act passes in its current form.
OTTAWA – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being summoned by a parliamentary committee for the third time in four years - this time over the tech company’s threat to block news from Canadians on its social-media platforms.
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