Domino effect: Facebook faces a year of reckoning Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Vlad Savov Save Normal text size Advertisement Facebookâs brief but tempestuous standoff with the Australian government over a world-first pay-for-news law is only the start of a string of regulatory battles that the worldâs biggest social network faces in 2021. Mark Zuckerberg started the year on the offensive, blocking news across Australia to fend off demands that Facebook pay media companies for content shared on its platform. Mark Zuckerbergâs Facebook is under global regulatory pressure. Credit:Bloomberg