Facebook announced Wednesday that it would no longer allow Australian publishers to share news on Facebook or allow Australian people to view or share international news sources.
Facebook’s Australian news ban also blocked links to weather, government services, poetry, and Facebook itself – mashable.com
Australians woke up on Thursday morning to find their news feeds, post history, and favourite news outlets’ pages scrubbed of all links to … well, news. Facebook followed through on its threat to ban the sharing of news links by and to Australian users, as the country’s government moves closer to forcing big tech companies to pay to link media outlets’ content.
Link: Facebook’s Australian news ban also blocked links to weather, government services, poetry, and Facebook itself
via mashable.com
Facebook’s Australia power play – theweek.com
The Australian government is working on a law that would require large internet platforms like Google and Facebook to pay local journalism publishers for their content. In response, Facebook announced Wednesday that it would block all Australians from posting any news content of any kind, and would block the entire world population from posting any news content from Australian sources.
Link: Facebook’s Australia power play
via www.theweek.com
