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What Meta's and Google's news blocking means for indie media, and for you
FromThe Big Story
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Aug 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On Tuesday Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, made good on a threat to block all news from Canadians on its platforms. Google is promising to do much the same thing, and has already tested its capacity to do so. Whatever side of the political debate over Bill C-18 you might be on, it's time to look at what the tech companies' retaliations to the bill will do in practice.How do Canadians find specific news without Google, Facebook and Instagram? If they're not encountering reliable news sources on those platforms, what will they find in their place? What does this do to smaller, independent publishers who rely on discoverability to grow their audience and what are some of them trying to do to get around the blocks?GUEST: Sarah Krichel, social media manager, The Tyee (read Sarah's analysis of the Meta/Google blocks here)
Released:
Aug 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
What happened to our attention spans?: (This is part one in a five-part series called Interconnected, detailing how technology is changing humanity.) Have you by any chance been struggling to focus recently? Maybe you used to read long books, or dive into old hobbies and learning new things, and now that feels a lot harder than it should. You are not alone. Research shows that we are suffering through a profound loss of attention, and it's getting worse every day. So what happened to us? Did we lose ourselves in our new devices, or has our attention been deliberately stolen? And what can we do to get it back? GUEST: Johann Hari, journalist and author of Stolen Focus by The Big Story