As a proud second-generation Canadian community newspaper publisher, who is the lead plaintiff on a class-action lawsuit to make sure U.S.-based tech giants don’t rip off publishers like me, I was gobsmacked to see that the Government of Canada is using my hard-earned taxpayer dollars to resume advertising with Meta Platforms.

Anyone who watched the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump will know that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems more interested in checking out Lauren Sanchez than he does about fact-checking the content on his platforms, which spew misinformation and disinformation faster and more broadly than anything in human history. In fact, he fired his fact-checkers, seemingly to curry favour with President Trump.