Unblock the news

Canadian news has been blocked on Facebook for two years. Not anymore.

Two years ago Meta blocked Canadian news. I built a workaround.

ShareTheNews.ca lets you share Canadian news on Facebook, with proper headlines and previews — just like before the ban.

It’s free and I have no plans to monetize it. It’s just a public service hack to get more news in front of more people. It’s needed.

Annexation and threats to our sovereignty are real, but an even more pressing danger is our cultural absorption by the U.S. and loss of our national cohesion.

For many Canadians, verified news has mostly vanished from everyday life. But most don’t even know the ban exists.

One in five of us are aware that news is blocked in the places where so many continue to spend the bulk of their online lives — Facebook and Instagram.

Provincial election turnout is in decline. Some party leaders are doing more media with U.S. outlets than Canadian ones. And our recent federal election edged us closer to a two-party system than ever before.

We didn’t just lose news from our feeds two years ago — we are losing our sense of a shared story.

That's why I built ShareTheNews.

Try it. Use it. Spread the word, and share the news.

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P.S. if any links don't work or images don't load, bug me and I'll fix 'em.