Events Leading To Facebook s Unfriending Of Australian News Outlets Events Leading To Facebook s Unfriending Of Australian News Outlets Facebook stripped the pages of domestic and foreign news outlets for Australians and blocked users of its platform from sharing any news content.
Publishers lined up to express surprise that Facebook, headed by Mark Zuckerberg, had taken such action.
Sydney:
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed on Friday to press ahead with laws to force Facebook Inc to pay news outlets for content, saying he had received support from world leaders after the social media giant blacked out all media.
Here s a timeline of how the events unfolded in recent years.