Meta's abandonment of Australian news threatens 'national security', whistleblower says as she calls on the Albanese Govt to 'stand up and defend' its laws
Ms Haugen spoke exclusively to Sky News Australia as part of an investigation, “Tech Tyrants: Facebook's War on Australia", airing on Sky News this Wednesday at 8.30pm. Last week Australia’s top media executives, including News Corp Australia’s Executive Chairman of Australia Michael Miller, were summoned to conference calls and told one-by-one that Facebook parent company Meta “wouldn’t negotiate”.
But the company has been accused of changing its algorithm, and making a product known as News Tabs difficult to find, to artificially limit the reach of news. Ms Haugan said Facebook was obsessed with cost-cutting and sees accredited news, podcasts and “influencers” as being of equal value. “We should be concerned about people who have much more malicious goals when it comes to influencing Australian democracy.
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