Normal text size Very large text size With Facebook blocking all news pages and links from its Australian service, some people will be weighing up how theyâll continue to use the social media platform. Facebook is ubiquitous, and for many of us serves as a link to our friends, family, events, photos and memories. After Facebookâs snap decision on Thursday to block Australians from seeing news articles on its platform, some users began experimenting with loopholes to continuing sharing news, even resorting to breaking up the text in creative ways or using pictures of cats when posting news stories, to throw Facebook off the scent. But in the hours since, those loopholes appear to have been closed.