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Facebook has adopted a drastic bargaining position in its fight with Australia, blocking news from its platform rather than agreeing to a plan to pay for local journalism.
Community groups, state health departments and even the Bureau of Meteorology have been caught out by the ban too, which came in overnight yesterday without warning.
So is this just a negotiating tactic from Facebook?
Or could it be forever?
Today on The Signal, we ask who will blink first in the showdown over the Government s media bargaining code.
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Facebook news ban sees anti-vaccine misinformation pages unaffected and posting in information vacuum
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Conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine propaganda are spreading while Facebook blocks trusted news sites.
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In the midst of an information vacuum caused by Facebook s news ban in Australia, fringe self-described news websites, some already known for spreading misinformation, are freely posting vaccine scare stories.
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There is confusion around what counts as news content
Public health experts fear a spike in vaccine scare stories ahead of Monday s vaccine rollout Omg you guys are the only news left for Australians … all have gone, read one comment on an Australian Facebook page with over 200,000 followers.
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But on Thursday morning (AEDT), Mr Trump s single term as president will come to an end as Joe Biden is sworn in as his successor.
In some ways, that puts the central theory of this baseless and malleable web of conspiracies - that the outgoing president has spent years leading a mission to bring a deep state group of paedophiles, including top Democrats and Hollywood elites, to justice - to bed.
But experts say this doesn t necessarily mark the end of a movement that now has support within the Republican Party, leaving it, the incoming Biden administration, and even Australia, with much to consider.