Bill C-18, also known as the Online News Act in Canada, is a set of rules affecting Canadian news outlets. It passed on June 22 2023 and forces companies like Meta and Google to pay to share links to Canadian news websites. Because of this, both companies have decided to block Canadian users from seeing Canadian news posts on their platforms. Luckily, you can still see the news by connecting to a VPN server outside of Canada. It’s thought that Bill C-18 is based on a similar law passed by the Australian government in 2020 (the News Media Bargaining Code or NMBC). In that case, Meta also responded by blocking Australian news links for Australian users on its social media sites. However, both Meta and Google quickly reached deals with a number of local news outlets. This allowed such outlets to link their posts on these platforms once more, without being blocked.