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Facebook cuts deal with Australia, will restore news pages in the coming days
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Facebook cuts deal with Australia, will restore news pages in the coming days

  • Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Facebook said a compromise had been reached on key aspects of the law, which was fiercely opposed by the tech companies
  • A global outrage sparked last week after the social media platform blacked out news for its Australian users and inadvertently blocking a series of non-news Facebook pages
Published 23 Feb, 2021 11:02am
White House working with Facebook and Twitter to tackle anti-vaxxers
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White House working with Facebook and Twitter to tackle anti-vaxxers

  • Disinformation that causes vaccine hesitancy is going to be a huge obstacle to getting everyone vaccinated and there are no larger players in that than the social media platforms.
  • "We are talking to them ... so they understand the importance of misinformation and disinformation and how they can get rid of it quickly."
Published 19 Feb, 2021 08:35pm
Facebook's Australia news blackout: a shock four years in the making
World

Facebook's Australia news blackout: a shock four years in the making

  • Yet this was a shock four years in the making - a potential global turning point for regulation of big social media companies that began with Australia's complex, provincial politics in 2017.
  • If there is a viable rival to Facebook in years to come, its genesis will be the event that occurred in Australia on the 18th of February.
Published 19 Feb, 2021 05:22pm
Facebook blocks news content in Australia as it blasts proposed law
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Facebook blocks news content in Australia as it blasts proposed law

  • The Australian federal government has said it plans to put the legislation, which effectively force Google and Facebook to strike deals with media companies or have fees set for them, to a vote in the coming weeks.
  • The move, announced in a blog post on Wednesday, represents a divergence in responses among the big tech giants under attack by news publishers, which have blamed the companies for destroying their advertising business.
Published 18 Feb, 2021 01:43am