🇨🇦What Canadians Should Know About #Meta #UnblockCanadianNews 2006: Facebook launches its News Feed, training Canadian users to get their news on Facebook 2012: Facebook allows advertisers to share Sponsored Stories in its News Feed 10 years later…Facebook is making billions in advertising revenue (2022: $116.B) mostly from content it does not create.... 2022: 77% of Canadians use Facebook (Statista) 2022: Facebook renames News Feed to Feed 2023: (Summer) Approx 50% of Canadians get their news from social media (-The Conversation) 2023: (Summer) Canada has worst wildfire season on record 2023: (Summer) Meta (Facebook parent company) starts blocking news in response to the Online News Act (which is unlikely to take effect until 2024). 2023: (Summer) Google is also subject to the Online News Act (but Google is not yet blocking news) August 2023: Meta should now unblock news so Canadians in #Yellowknife and #Kelowna, which are evacuating due to devastating #wildfires, have trusted ac...