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Meta's news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada (www.businessinsider.com)
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Meta's news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada::Canadians are calling on Meta to lift its news ban so they can share news about the wildfires in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

government sites can still be linked to through facebook. that's not the issue.

facebook isn't linking to news sites. if you want news from news sites, go to the news sites. the "vital resources" aren't on CTV

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'm not responding to any more comments on this, but it's evident that a lot of you have never lived through a wildfire. All of the resources you need get centralized on local news sites (like Castanet for Kelowna) in a way that makes it easy to figure out what's happening. Many of the updates that local officials broadcast daily never get transcribed or posted anywhere except for local news sites such as that.

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