Thank you, Mrs. Thomas.
The definition of “digital news intermediary” specifies that it does not include an online communications platform that is a messaging service, the primary purpose of which is to allow persons to communicate with each other privately. Text messaging, for example, is excluded from the definition of “digital news intermediary”.
Perhaps a different way to understand what I am trying to communicate is that an online communications platform is a recognition of interprovincial communication undertakings, but in a digital context.