Australians woke to empty news feeds on their Facebook Inc pages today after the social media giant blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute with the government over paying for content.
Unbelievable. Unacceptable. The arrogance,” Madeleine King, a federal opposition lawmaker, wrote in a tweet referring to impacted emergency services. The Australian law would require Facebook and Google to reach commercial deals with news outlets whose links drive traffic to their platforms, or be subjected to forced arbitration to agree a price.
“ raised a few remaining issues with the government’s news media bargaining code and we agreed to continue our conversation to try to find a pathway forward,” Frydenberg added.
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