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CANBERRA, Australia — Facebook announced Tuesday that it would lift a ban on Australians viewing and sharing news on its platform after it struck a deal with the government on proposed legislation . . .

Facebook is to lift its ban on Australians sharing news following a deal with the government on a proposal to make digital giants pay for journalism.

Facebook announced Tuesday that it would lift a ban on Australians viewing and sharing news on its platform after it struck a deal with the government.

Facebook’s cooperation is a major victory in Australian efforts to make the gateways to the Internet pay for the journalism that they use.

23 February 2021, 5:15 am EST By Facebooks news ban will now be lifted in the coming days in Australia.  ( Pixabay from Pexels ) After the Australian government announced that they would require the social media companies to pay for the local news content, Facebook declared that it will now restore the news in the country in the upcoming days. Last week, the platform...

Social media giant and Google agree to amended legislation requiring them to pay for journalism; temporary restriction blocked users from sharing vital virus information

Look carefully near Kongs foot for MercatorNet Facebook unfriended all of Australia last week. Locked in a battle with the Federal government over legislation which would force it to pay for links to news publications, it wiped Australian news sources from viewer’s feeds. So when you checked your Facebook feed on February 18, you didn’t see anything from The Australian, The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph or, initially, the Bureau of Meteorology, Weste...

Facebook, Google and TikTok signed up to the voluntary code today, but many see it as “pointless and shameless”.

Image: Unsplash Prerana Pakhrin Misrahi Communications Specialist, Society and Innovation, World Economic Forum The theme for World Day of Social Justice 2021 is "A Call for Social Justice in the Digital Economy." We asked four experts to share their views on how to ensure social justice in a digital world. 2020 was a revealing year. The exponential rate of technological change in the past decade was already posing certain challenges and threats to vulnerable communi...

Facebook will lose fans and customers in Australia as a result of its news ban, according to a Facebook user in Sydney.