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Facebook to restore Australia news, pay media companies

Social media giant reaches compromise with government to tweak new law aimed at making sure local media outlets get paid for their work.

Social media giant reaches compromise with government to tweak new law aimed at making sure local media outlets get paid for their work.

Facebook said Tuesday it will lift a contentious ban on Australian news and pay local media companies for content, after a last-gasp deal on pending landmark legislation.

BRISBANE, Australia: Facebook’s news blackout in Australia has raised fears misinformation could come to dominate the platform in the country, with fake news and conspiracy theories left...

Critics of wide-reaching move say professional journalism acted as a check on the spread of fake news; now it's been barred from feeds on the social media platform

For two decades, global news outlets have complained internet companies are getting rich at their expense, selling advertising linked to their reports without sharing revenue.

Australian arts and cultural organisations and venues are scrambling to plead their case with Facebook to have their sites restored after they were caught up in the social media giant’s blanket ban on publishing news. More than 250 cultural organisations woke on Thursday to find their Facebook pages had been wiped of content. They argue they do not meet the social media giant’s loose definition of “news publisher” under the ban, which swept the...

Misinformation fears after Facebook blacks out news in Australia

Facebook has prevented users in Australia from sharing news on its site, while Google inked a deal with News Corp. Facebook's ban has also caught up unsuspecting targets.