Google Will Remove Canadian News From Search Over New Law

Alphabet’s move comes after Meta pulled content from Facebook
Government hoped to ease revenue woes for local outlets

Alphabet has pulled links from its platform before, shutting down Google News in Spain for nearly eight years over a 2014 law.Photographer: Marlena Sloss/Bloomberg

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By Randy Thanthong-Knight

June 29, 2023 at 5:29 PM UTC

Updated on

June 29, 2023 at 7:57 PM UTC

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Alphabet Inc. said it will remove links to news from Canadian publishers on its Google search engine after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government passed a law requiring digital platforms to pay local news outlets.

The Online News Act “creates uncertainty for our products and exposes us to uncapped financial liability simply for facilitating Canadians’ access to news from Canadian publishers,” Kent Walker, the Mountain View, California-based company’s president of global affairs, said in a statement.