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On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is that tech platforms have benefitted heavily from content created by news organizations, while the news organizations continue to not receive a fair share of the upside. According the
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