Some news outlets report difficulty posting on Meta apps amid restriction rollout

TORONTO –

News shops say they have been unable to submit on Meta’s social media websites some or the entire time for the reason that digital large started rolling out its restrictions on Canadian news in response to federal laws.

CBC spokesperson Kerry Kelly says in an electronic mail that the corporate has seen inconsistencies when posting on Facebook and Instagram, together with situations the place content material submitted doesn’t get posted.

A spokesperson for Bell, which says some account customers are nonetheless in a position to submit to the model’s accounts, whereas others can’t.

CTV News is a division of Bell Media, which is owned by BCE Inc.

In mid-July The Tyee’s founding editor David Beers wrote a narrative saying the outlet was blocked from posting news tales on Instagram and Threads.

Meta directed requests for remark to its printed rationalization of the restrictions, which says pages and accounts run by Canadian news organizations can submit content material however that viewers in Canada will not have the ability to see these posts.

Meta was beforehand testing news limitations for some customers however originally of August mentioned it should take away news for all Canadian customers inside just a few weeks as a part of its response to the federal authorities’s Online News Act, which might power the corporate to compensate media shops for content material on its platforms.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Aug. 11, 2023.