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Meta Deliberately Shut Australian Facebook Accounts to Pressure Australian Government

May 6, 2022
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Meta’s sweeping news ban across Australia in early 2021, which saw the Facebook pages of non-profits and government entities also shut down, was a deliberate ploy by the tech giant’s top brass to gain leverage during heated negotiations over an impending media payment law. The U.S.-based Whistleblower Aid revealed on May 5 that it had…

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Meta Deliberately Shut Down Facebook Pages to Pressure Australian Government

May 6, 2022
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Meta’s sweeping news ban across Australia in early 2021, which saw the Facebook pages of non-profits and government entities also shut down, was a deliberate ploy by the tech giant’s top brass to gain leverage during heated negotiations over an impending media payment law. The U.S.-based Whistleblower Aid revealed on May 5 that it had…

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Meta Deliberately Shut Down Major Facebook Accounts to Strong-Arm Australian Government

May 6, 2022
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Meta’s sweeping news ban across Australia in early 2021, which saw the Facebook pages of non-profits and government entities also shut down, was a deliberate ploy by the tech giant’s top brass to gain leverage during heated negotiations over an impending media payment law. The U.S.-based Whistleblower Aid revealed on May 5 that it had…

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Facebook News Ban Sends Australian Media Traffic Tumbling

February 21, 2021
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Australian news outlets saw their web traffic take a tumble following Facebook’s dramatic ban on news-related content on the platform last week. Data from Chartbeat reveals that across 255 Australian news websites, overall traffic from Facebook users in Australia fell by 13 percent, while visits from overseas-based readers fell 30 percent, according to the ABC….

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Facebook Has Pulled Its ‘Big Gun’ and Fired on Australia: Former Facebook CEO

February 17, 2021
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Former Facebook CEO Stephen Scheeler said Facebook has pulled out a big gun and fired on Australia by banning users from viewing and sharing news on the platform. The news ban, which has spilt over also to affect government and emergency services, is the social media giant’s retaliation to the Morrison government’s impending News Media Bargaining Code….

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Facebook Has Pulled Its ‘Big Gun’ and Fired on Australia: Former Facebook Executive

February 17, 2021
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The former chief executive officer for Facebook Australia and New Zealand, Stephen Scheeler, said the social media giant has pulled out a big gun and fired on Australia by banning users from viewing and sharing news on the platform. The news ban, which has spilt over also to affect government and emergency services, is the social…

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