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Facebook’s Australia news ban will test how powerful the firm really is

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source link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/02/18/facebooks-australia-news-ban-experiment-powerful-social-media/
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Facebook’s Australia news ban will test how powerful the firm really is

Mark Zuckerberg’s move against publishers is a radical piece of brinksmanship, with little precedent in the company’s 17-year history

By Laurence Dodds, US Technology Reporter,

San Francisco

18 February 2021 • 6:43am

Mark Zuckerberg and Scott Morrison as boxing kangaroos against the backdrop of the Australian flag

You can’t say Australia wasn’t warned. Last September, Facebook responded to Canberra’s plan to make tech giants pay for news content with a threat, or perhaps a promise: if the current draft becomes law, we will be forced to ban all Australian news from our service....


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