It’s in a separate folder with special permissions, preventing any modification. afaik it’s not trivial to “unlock”

I think they were trying to help by providing metadata for you to check against. Not actually sending the APK itself.

I think the 2 points the article makes about that are pretty valid though. It’s most probably more than Facebook’s revenue in this single country plus it’s just the beginning.

Some people have pointed out, that this seems to be a normal vacation policy within Canada. Still a shitty policy, but I wouldn’t put the majority blame on LMG for this specific issue.