Photo: StuartMiles - Freerange StockCanada may make Google and Facebook pay for news
- The Canadian Heritage Minister is planning on introducing legislation this year to force Google and Facebook to pay for news content they distribute on their platforms.
- Google and Facebook control between 60 and 90 per cent of the digital advertising market making it difficult for news publishers to attract advertisers.
- However, news links on both Google and Facebook direct billions of users to news sites.
- Australia is introducing similar legislation and both Google and Facebook have threatened to restrict access to their websites in that country.