Meta is so unwilling to pay for news under a new Canadian law that it’s starting to block it on Facebook and Instagram in that country::The rollout of the news ban on Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada will take place over the next few weeks.
Because the law was changed: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/facebook-ban-australia-1.5924076
All those words and the article doesn’t actually say what was changed.