Regulierung von Big Tech: Der Staat darf nicht erpressen handelsblatt.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from handelsblatt.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Facebook’s “news ban”, in response to Australia’s proposed media bargaining code, has been hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on social networks in the past day or so.
The social media platform has effectively halted all posting of links from Australian news pages and stopped people in Australia from posting or viewing international news as well.
The change happened overnight, and may be undone if either Australia or Facebook backs down.
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But if the current situation continues, it may leave Facebook operating much more like the Chinese platform WeChat, where news is ruled by platform-specific content houses cranking out huge volumes of low-quality articles. And that might suit Facebook quite well - if not the public.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has spoken to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg again on Friday over media reforms as he calls on other nations to back Australia.
Facebook doit lever son blocage en Australie, dit le premier ministre lesaffaires.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lesaffaires.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.