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Published March 3, 2021
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Bill Shorten, of all people, didn’t hold back when calling out the government’s choice of acting Attorney-General.
The current Attorney-General
Christian Porter is taking a short break after he publicly denied historical rape allegations on Wednesday. Despite the controversy, he refused to step down permanently.
Facebook’s Australian media ban is taking down official government pages
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The Facebook pages of many Australian government agencies seem to have been caught up in the social media network’s ban on news posts by users and media organizations in the country. Users on Twitter have reported that the pages of agencies like the Bureau of Meteorology, Department of Fire and Emergency Services Western Australia, and Queensland Health have no posts available.
When
Verge staff in the US tried to access the pages, some saw them as having no posts. Other
Verge staffers saw posts appearing as normal, however, though were often viewing pages without logging into Facebook. Still, the volume of Twitter concerns makes it clear that, for at least some users, posts from those pages are inaccessible. It’s unclear whether the different results were the result of a ban still rolling out or Facebook retracting the enforcement action.
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Overnight, Facebook made the decision to block Australians from seeing and posting news on the platform in response to the proposed media bargaining code.
Australians scrolling their news feed this morning will have been met with a significant lack of news on the site. A quick look at the Facebook pages of popular Australian publishers, including Junkee, have now come up blank.