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© 2021 AFPFacebook to restore Australia news pages after deal on media law
By Andrew BEATTY SYDNEY©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Michael Machida
Who gets their news from Facebook?
Strangerland
Too bad. My Aussie friends said it was nice having a cleaner news feed.
lostrune2
The digital platforms and news publishers couldn't afford the loss of revenue
Antiquesaving
At least AFP did a better job at pointing out that this new law doesn't help or cover small independent news and publishers.
In fact they were left out of the law which is a Rupert Murdoch backed law.
This was specifically written to benefit larger mainstream media and block small independent News from having any say, any contracts and access to FB users.
Strangerland
Which has directly led to a lot of the problems in America - so many of these "independent news sources" have no jounalistic integrity, but they sell sensationalist fear, something the right is particularly prone to.
Richard Gallagher
Facebook: Gangster capitalism at work. As for news feeds: the employed algorithms block genuine journalists who have been shunted to the margins. Though weirdo bloggers and nonsense that doesn't even aspire to the level of a tabloid appear regularly. Facebook is a data mining venture, incredibly intrusive and warrants regulation due to monopoly status. Facebook has a very large, detrimental effect on the practice of actual journalism and its proliferation. Same with Google.
fxgai
Lol, links is how the entire Internet works.
fxgai
Not sure that is true... Facebook doesn’t seem to have a monopoly because many people have been quitting it. I personally rarely ever use it.
Baradzed
I don’t understand what was this blunder from Facebook about. Usually companies think well in advance and don’t mess with any government. Is it just to make their shares price jump back and force for someone from the management to buy a pair of new trousers?
lostrune2
Analysts say Facebook got the better of the Australian government in this deal
Strangerland
I'm inclined to agree. Australia had a big chance here, and they fouled it up. Which is unsurprising for the Morrison government. They are all about big business over the little guy. In this case it was the government negotiating for one big business against another.