Juno News - February 07, 2025


Trudeau lifts the federal ban on ads from Meta platforms

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Justin Trudeau Mark Zuckerberg Meta
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2 minutes

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149.18

Word count

434

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18


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On Wednesday, the Trudeau Government lifted its self-imposed ban on advertising on the government's own social media platforms. Now, you ll be able to see Government of Canada ads on social media again. But still, Canadian journalists and organizations like True North are still banned from seeing government ads.

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00:00:00.000 Let's talk about Justin Trudeau and his latest attempt to manipulate Canadians and control the
00:00:05.980 media. So on Wednesday, we learned that the Trudeau government had ended its own self-imposed ban on
00:00:12.700 advertising on meta platforms. So starting soon, you'll once again be able to see Government of
00:00:18.960 Canada ads on Facebook and Instagram. The Privy Council office, which is filled with Justin
00:00:24.860 Trudeau's own personal bureaucrats recently spent $100,000 promoting Justin Trudeau's
00:00:31.680 GST tax holiday shtick, which was designed to bribe Canadians with our own money in order
00:00:38.960 to boost Justin Trudeau's public image.
00:00:41.980 But wait a minute.
00:00:42.840 Back in July of 2023, Justin Trudeau himself pledged not to give any money to Meta that
00:00:49.960 no government advertising would be spent on Meta because Meta had decided to pull Canadian news
00:00:56.680 from its platforms. So why would Meta pull Canadian news from its platforms? Well, because
00:01:02.680 one component of Justin Trudeau's censorious online news act was an attempt to shake down
00:01:08.680 the tech giant to force them to give a bailout to failing Canadian news companies. At the time,
00:01:15.880 Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said no to that request. And in turn, Justin Trudeau pulled
00:01:22.200 Canada's measly government ad spend. Well, now that Trudeau needs to use Zuckerberg's platforms
00:01:28.680 to promote his own vote buying scheme for the Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau is walking that
00:01:34.920 back. But Meta's news ban still applies, making it so that Canadians cannot view or share news
00:01:42.120 stories on its platforms. So thanks to Justin Trudeau's meddling in the market
00:01:48.060 of Canadian news, independent organizations like True North have lost a
00:01:52.620 huge part of our audience, including the millions of Canadians who used to
00:01:56.360 interact with our stories on Facebook and Instagram. So did you get that? Trudeau
00:02:01.860 is saying it's okay for him and his government to be back on Facebook and
00:02:05.820 Instagram, but it's not okay for journalists and organizations like True
00:02:10.620 North. Very fitting, very rich. Now, you probably saw last month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that
00:02:16.640 there were welcomed changes to Meta's policies, which recognize the public shift that we've had
00:02:22.020 towards free speech. Zuckerberg said that he would do away with politically biased third-party fact
00:02:28.380 checkers and move towards X, the X model of community notes and having more say from the
00:02:35.720 people more free speech. He also said that Meta was returning to its roots of free expression
00:02:41.100 and allowing more sharing of news and political opinions in algorithms and on the platform.
00:02:48.140 But yet again, thanks to Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, Canadians will still be banned from
00:02:53.580 seeing news.