The 'shameful' Facebook news ban has also blocked official health information and domestic violence services

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Facebook’s move to remove news organisations off its platform has captured non-news, official pages including governmental health organisations, social services, union groups and the Bureau of Meteorology.

Our website remains active. You can follow our Instagram and Twitter for your health news.James Meesea, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, suggested it might not be an error on Facebook’s part.

“What it really points to is the difficulty in saying, you know, this is news and this is not news and when you start drawing out the stitch and you say well you know is the weather news is student journalism news right is that is that news that should be accounted for?”

 

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Never occurred to me to look for these things on FB. Life goes on.

DRWaus Heavy-handed

You never complained when they banned conservatives. Karma is a bitch. I hope Twitter does the same.

DRWaus Shows one limitation of using a site built to keep track of hotties on campus for essential information.

RobertArnol They all have websites and apps......

Facebook blocked Facebook in Australia.. and Australia is doing a happy dance ;-)

defundsbs

myofoz Just as well I dont get my info from Facebook

Sick shit msm

This is a problem for people who only get their news from Facebook. They are quite possibly a problem for everyone else.

Not only shameful, they’re evil. Will ATO start an investigation?

If only the rest of the internet existed!

It is time the Government banned all Facebook services in Australia

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