News companies deliver millions worth of engagement to Big Tech By Greg O'Brien, news director of CHCH-TV in Hamilton, Ontario We’ve let the tech giants control the narrative for far too long. During the months-long battles leading up to the adoption of Bill C-18, passed Thursday by the federal government, Meta’s executives used the same dollar figure repeatedly to support its case against contributing to Canadian journalism: That they deliver $230 million in annual value “for free” to Canadian news publishers through 1.9 billion worth of yearly outbound clicks from Facebook back to all of our web sites. Unsurprisingly, this...
