First Thoughts: Australia's Facebook status, No 10's First Lady, and Tory killer motorways
A right-wing Australian government proposes a law to make Google and Facebook pay for content they now rip off from newspapers. A free press would be saved and democracy would flourish. In retaliation, Facebook temporarily blocks all news from its Australian platform, a move widely denounced as an attempt to bully a democracy. That’s the account served up to us and, if you suspect something is wrong with it, you would be right. The prime minister, Scott Morrison, may be taking on two corporate giants, but he is doing so on behalf of another corporate giant, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, w...