Google executives appearing before a House of Commons committee on March 10 said the online search-engine giant would stop running tests next week that are currently blocking news content for some Canadian users.
Google said in late February that it had blocked news for some Canadians as part of a test it was running in response to the Liberal government’s pending Online News Act, or Bill C-18, which seeks to regulate digital news intermediaries like Google and Meta for the stated goal of increasing “fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace and contribute to its sustainability.”
