Facebook does not care about you, does not care about anyone who uses the service. It only cares about its bottom line.

There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

It's been a deadly summer of historic wildfires in Canada.

This year's wildfire season has seen the most areas burned in Canada's recorded history.

And you'd think that during an emergency like deadly wildfires, people would be able to turn

to social media platforms to stay informed on critical information.

After all, one in four Canadians get their news from social media.

However, that is not the case, because when you go to a news outlets Facebook or Instagram

page or try to share a link about evacuations right now,

it's all blanked out. That's because Facebook has pulled news content in Canada, an objection to

the Online News Act, which would require social media platforms to pay news outlets.

Now, this is a move grounded in stunning cruelty and abdication of responsibility

at a time of crisis, and it really shows exactly what companies like Facebook think of the people

who use their platforms that make them rich. Indigenous communities in Canada have been the most

deeply impacted by the wildfires. The Union of British-Columbian Indian Chiefs

has called on Facebook to lift its ban on sharing local news as wildfires rage because folks in

smaller communities are dependent on social media to get critical news updates. Grand Chief Stuart Phillips

said, social media has become a community organizing tool that has relied upon easy infrastructure

for sharing news. We don't know the long-lasting effect yet, but we already know that not being

able to share news has communities disoriented and puts lives at risk. Government emergency

websites and text notification warnings just don't have the same reach and up-to-date information

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