Juno News - February 07, 2025Trudeau lifts the federal ban on ads from Meta platforms
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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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Let's talk about Justin Trudeau and his latest attempt to manipulate Canadians and control the
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media. So on Wednesday, we learned that the Trudeau government had ended its own self-imposed ban on
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advertising on meta platforms. So starting soon, you'll once again be able to see Government of
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Canada ads on Facebook and Instagram. The Privy Council office, which is filled with Justin
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Trudeau's own personal bureaucrats recently spent $100,000 promoting Justin Trudeau's
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GST tax holiday shtick, which was designed to bribe Canadians with our own money in order
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Back in July of 2023, Justin Trudeau himself pledged not to give any money to Meta that
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no government advertising would be spent on Meta because Meta had decided to pull Canadian news
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from its platforms. So why would Meta pull Canadian news from its platforms? Well, because
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one component of Justin Trudeau's censorious online news act was an attempt to shake down
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the tech giant to force them to give a bailout to failing Canadian news companies. At the time,
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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said no to that request. And in turn, Justin Trudeau pulled
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Canada's measly government ad spend. Well, now that Trudeau needs to use Zuckerberg's platforms
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to promote his own vote buying scheme for the Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau is walking that
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back. But Meta's news ban still applies, making it so that Canadians cannot view or share news
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stories on its platforms. So thanks to Justin Trudeau's meddling in the market
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of Canadian news, independent organizations like True North have lost a
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huge part of our audience, including the millions of Canadians who used to
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interact with our stories on Facebook and Instagram. So did you get that? Trudeau
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is saying it's okay for him and his government to be back on Facebook and
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Instagram, but it's not okay for journalists and organizations like True
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North. Very fitting, very rich. Now, you probably saw last month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that
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there were welcomed changes to Meta's policies, which recognize the public shift that we've had
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towards free speech. Zuckerberg said that he would do away with politically biased third-party fact
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checkers and move towards X, the X model of community notes and having more say from the
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people more free speech. He also said that Meta was returning to its roots of free expression
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and allowing more sharing of news and political opinions in algorithms and on the platform.
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But yet again, thanks to Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, Canadians will still be banned from