Google will stop blocking news links next week following a five-week test that limited access to news for some Canadian users.
Google Canada's Sabrina Geremia, Vice President and Country Manager, appears via videoconference as a witness at a Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, March 6, 2023. Geremia is set to return to a parliamentary committee following the tech giant's decision to run a five week test that is blocking news access to some of its users.
The company has said all types of news were affected by the test, including content created by Canadian broadcasters and newspapers.Google said it was meant to assess the impacts of a potential response to Bill C-18, the Liberal government’s controversial“I want to underline that these are just tests. No decisions have been made about product changes. We’re simply doing our due diligence in the most responsible way possible,” said Jason Kee, public policy manager for Google.
They were also asked to provide internal documents related to its decision to block news links — like internal emails, texts and other messages — but that has not yet happened. Geremia said Google is working “collaboratively” with the committee to provide internal documents. She said the Online News Act is no longer about supporting local journalism and will benefit legacy media and broadcasters the most, while incentivizing clickbait content over quality journalism.“But the exemption and eligibility criteria have shifted so significantly that it would require subsidies to media companies even if they don’t produce news, are not online, and we don’t link to their content.”Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.
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