Today we made the difficult decision to temporarily close comments on stories about indigenous people. We hope to reopen them in mid-January after we’ve had some time to review how these comments are moderated and to provide more detailed guidance to our moderators.
I want to explain our rationale for taking this unusual step. But let me begin by explaining why we have comments on our news site.
If you follow industry trends, you’ll know that the value of commenting on media websites has been debated for years. Many publishers, including some newspaper sites in Canada, have shut comments down.
Others have turned the commenting function on their websites over to third-party social media platforms such as Facebook.
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