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Canada wildfire evacuees say Facebook's news ban 'dangerous' in emergency situation::The ongoing fight between tech company Meta and the federal government over subsidizing news publishers means links to news sources are being blocked on sites like Facebook and Instagram. Wildfire evacuees in the Northwest Territories say that's making it harder to share life-saving information during an emergency.

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[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

What about cell phone emergency alerts and also radio and TV emergency broadcasts? Also most towns and cities I've been to have loud emergency horns as well. I kind of wonder why they don't use those more. Also this is the US, but I would be shocked if Canada didn't have something similar setup?

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago

That's pretty low bandwidth or reach, though. They need to come up with a modern solution already.

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