Daily active users of Facebook and time spent on the app in Canada have stayed roughly unchanged since parent company Meta started blocking news there at the start of August, according to data shared by Similarweb

Meta setzt die angekündigte Sperre von Nachrichten in Kanada um. Es möchte User nicht auf fremde Webseiten schicken und dafür noch eine Linksteuer zahlen.​

Be careful before you casually dash off another thumbs-up emoji: A Canadian court has found that the ubiquitous symbol can affirm that a person is officially entering into a contract. The ruling pointed to what a judge called the “new reality in Canadian society” that courts would have to confront as more people express themselves with thumbs, hearts and smiley faces.

The ban follows similar actions on government devices by multiple U.S states and the EU Commission

Watchdogs from the federal and provincial governments are looking into whether the platform – owned by China’s ByteDance – is complying with privacy laws.