Swat off the press: Meta v Canada’s news ploy
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
A bid to squeeze money from social-media platforms that link to news content has backfired: what was intended to help publishers is instead harming them. America’s workers still work more than Europe’s; what is changing is where they do it (9:44). And remembering Shirley Conran, whose books were more than merely saucy: they helped women with everything from money to mathematics (16:22).
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| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. American workers have a reputation for working longer hours, and it's indisputable that they get less holiday. In the latest numbers showing |
| 1:05.3 | the disparity with European workers, the interesting part is not how long Americans |
| 1:09.9 | toil, but where? |
| 1:13.7 | And yes, Shirley Conrin wrote novels that were full to burst it with sex, but her sole purpose |
| 1:19.5 | was not to titillate. |
| 1:21.4 | Our correspondent reflects on a life spent helping women with finances, |
| 1:25.4 | with mathematics, even with catching their partners cheating. |
| 1:30.8 | First up though, though. |
| 1:35.0 | You could call it a game of chicken. |
| 1:45.0 | Nearly a year ago, Canada's government decided to take on the social media giants. |
| 1:50.0 | Facebook and the others, the government said said should pay Canada's struggling news outlets for showing links to their reporting and so the government passed a law to that effect. |
| 2:01.0 | But Meta, which owns Facebook, refused to cough up. Instead, Instagram and Facebook |
| 2:06.2 | users soon saw those media sites blocked with the warning in response to Canadian |
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