Media Ecosystem Observatory issues report on the first year of Meta’s news ban in Canada

Canadian news media engagement is down, less news is being consumed, and many Canadians do not even realize the shift has occurred. MEO’s Information Ecosystem Brief, “Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta’s News Ban in Canada”, looks at what happened when Meta banned news for users in Canada.

This week’s reads

Links to and excerpts from articles about Search (AI and publishers, PR, entities, and brands), what “intifada” and “from the river to the sea” mean to Israelis and Palestinians and how they are understood (or not) elsewhere, on the terrible costs of allowing a Russian victory in Ukraine, and a bit more about the Forward.