Facebook and News Corp Have Reached a Three Year News Distribution Deal Photo: Michael Nagle / Stringer (Getty Images) After temporarily disabling Australian news organizations’ ability to share news links in February, Facebook announced on Monday that it had reached a licensing agreement with the news giant News Corp. Advertisement In a statement, News Corp Australia said that the three-year deal would allow the media conglomerate’s properties — including the national newspaper The Australian, the news site news.com.au, and major metropolitan papers including The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun and The Courier-Mail — to share news links on the platform in the country.