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Australian users of Facebook woke up to a very different feed on Thursday, after the social network blocked them from seeing or posting news over a government plan to force tech giants to pay publishers for their content.
The head of the UK Parliament's digital and media committee says Facebook should be "ashamed" of its behaviour after it blocked access to news content for Australian users.
DID SCOTTY KNOW? According to Scott Morrison’s claim that no one in his office knew about Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape has been undermined by newly-released text messages revealing one of his staffers was “mortified” by the story and pledged to bring the allegations to the prime minister’s chief of staff. The April 3, 2019 text came 11 days after the alleged incident and, reportedly, were due to a friend’s connection with the Prime Minister’s Office after Higgins confided she had received “jack-shit” support from the Liberal party. The news comes after Linda Reynolds ...
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Regulator found a power imbalance between media and Google and Facebook Australian government wants to pass a new law to force big tech to pay for news Google has threatened to leave the Australian market if the code goes ahead Facebook said it may be forced to stop Australians from seeing news content Microsoft says it would never threaten to leave and has supported the code