{"id":234220,"date":"2026-06-20T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ottawas-new-policies-on-social-media-and-ai-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:35:19","slug":"heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ottawas-new-policies-on-social-media-and-ai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ottawas-new-policies-on-social-media-and-ai-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what you need to know about Ottawa&#8217;s new policies on social media and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/20\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ottawas-new-policies-on-social-media-and-ai\/\">Here&#8217;s what you need to know about Ottawa&#8217;s new policies on social media and AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/20\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ottawas-new-policies-on-social-media-and-ai\/\">https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/20\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ottawas-new-policies-on-social-media-and-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-20 06:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"halifax.citynews.ca\">halifax.citynews.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Liberal government recently introduced several key pieces of AI and digital regulation legislation, including a new AI strategy and the social media bill (Bill C-34).<\/li>\n<li>Bill C-34 aims to block kids under 16 from accessing social media; platforms can apply for exemptions with sufficient safeguards unless offering adult content.<\/li>\n<li>Privacy Bill C-36 recognizes privacy as a fundamental right and includes higher standards for managing children&#8217;s data and transparency in automated decision-making.<\/li>\n<li>The privacy bill provides the new Digital Safety and Data Protection Commission with powers to enforce regulations, including large fines for violations.<\/li>\n<li>The government passed a separate bill criminalizing non-consensual sexual deepfakes to address issues with deepfakes.<\/li>\n<li>It unveiled an AI strategy investing $2.3 billion to boost AI literacy and adoption, with a goal of creating up to 340,000 new jobs by 2031.<\/li>\n<li>In relation to streamers, Ottawa decided to provide $600 million annually to support Canadian content instead of enforcing new CRTC rules requiring more financial contributions from streaming services.<\/li>\n<li>The new AI and digital safety laws are expected to gradually come into effect starting in late 2028, after a lengthy legislative process and regulator setup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know about Ottawa&#8217;s new policies on social media and AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/78d7ee2956e412a316ea2a676011f83f2fb3080d12896267cd4926fc835ab923.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234222,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234220\/revisions\/234222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}