U.S. State Department targets Online News Act in human rights report

OTTAWA — The U.S. State Department is taking aim at Canada’s Online News Act in a human rights report that criticizes press freedom in Canada — which experts characterized Thursday as Orwellian.

The Online News Act, which requires Meta and Google to compensate news publishers for the use of their content, is cited in a section of the report covering freedom of the press. ---More...

The U.S. State Department is taking aim at Canada’s Online News Act in a human rights report that criticizes press freedom in Canada, which experts characterized Thursday as Orwellian. https://t.co/YuY4hYtHxl

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