Facebook pulls news content for Australia

[NoPicklez]

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/facebook-pulls-news-content-for-australia-561183

[Lamad123]

Less misinformation!! Congratulations, Australia!

[emteycz → Lamad123]

Less? This is going to lead to more, not less. Disinformation thrives when real news are banned.

[Tagbert → emteycz]

What “news” do you see in Facebook? All I see are promos, editorial or political rumors.

[emteycz → Tagbert]

And so it begins - https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-18/facebook-news...

[anakaine → Tagbert]

The important thing is that they've made it very difficult to reply to nonsense claims with links to authoritative news sources. They even wound up inadvertently banning some government websites.

[taksintikk]

Australia only has leverage if other countries in Oceania g8/13 etc join in to the demands.

Otherwise the Australian market is the size of a pimple on a mosquitos butt.