> My position is that Google and meta have monopolised the audience.

Meta have said that people don't come to them for news - [0]. Do you have numbers to counter?

What prevents Canada's government to create a news portal, then promote it everywhere, including on Google and Meta, telling people to go to that website for news? People who are looking for news will surely be visiting that site now, since they spend less time on FB. Call it news.ca. Of course big businesses will benefit. The smaller ones will inevitably suffer.

> Obviously - that’s exactly why they’re doing it.

Seems to be the government's intention too. They've been very well aware of it.

[0] - https://about.fb.com/news/2023/06/changes-to-news-availabili...