said it would restrict publishers and users in Australia from viewing or sharing news articles, ramping up a standoff with the government there over a proposal that would force tech companies to pay newspapers for content.
Facebook’s move will result in a blackout for content from Australian publishers on Facebook world-wide as well as the unavailability of stories from both domestic and international news content within Australia. Facebook said that news accounts for “less than 4% of the content people see in their News Feed” but didn’t provide detail on how it had calculated that number.
“It has left us facing a stark choice: attempt to comply with a law that ignores the realities of this relationship, or stop allowing news content on our services in Australia. With a heavy heart, we are choosing the latter,” the company said in a statement Wednesday from William Easton, Facebook’s managing director, for Australia and New Zealand.
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Does Zuckerberg think Australians woke up to this and thought 'oh no, my life is ruined'? Pay your share Facebook.
Australian here & not a Facebook user or fan. However it this story should be reported in context with the legislation, and the fact that Murdoch’s Newscorp is the major driver & beneficiary of this policy position. FYI from an Australian independent Media outlet “Crikey”
Bullying behaviour indeed!! will Facebook be missed in Oz probably a salient 'wake up call' for us in Oz🧐🌻
Lol good luck with that
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I’m in Australia and in a country plagued with bush fires and floods, not to mention a pandemic I am not particularly happy. FB tagging news does alert us to immediate issues quickly and easily.
THIS IS OZ GOVT AGENDA NOT COMMON MAN's! 1.Facebook is a Common man Platform. 2.We rarely read news on FB. 3.We interact with friends & Family for free 4.This is COVID time & could the Govt not have waited. 5.If tax is an issue - hike tax from 2.6% to 10% 6.Start your own FB
Profit sharing would be workable for the thousands of remaining newspapers in the U.S. The only obstacle is the obscene profits of the tech companies. The Anti-trust laws passed when Teddy Roosevelt was around are still on the books. All it requires is the political will. 🤔
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Frankly, anyone who uses Facebook as a portal to read their news deserves to have it turned off anyway.
Good! I don’t wanna hear about the news from the future! Unfair they always 12 hours ahead of me! 😎
do people even use FB to share News? the News is on the TV ..
I hope this happens in the U.S. too. I'm sure they'll fix sharing of links to government sites and other sites that weren't going to cost them money and Facebook will be a better place for it.
I'm confused whats wrong about this? They were being required to pay for every link put on the website which would be insane to track and pay for so they just said no more sharing. Seems like a simple cause and effect situation.
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Does anyone even use Facebook still?
Oh wow
From Australia. I can go to a news page for news if I want it without my day falling apart.
How would this thing work? So if I sat all day and shared news links then Facebook would have to pay for it?
F*ck Zuck and Facebook ! boycottfacebook
Time to nationalize these companies . They conclude with one another to take advantage of people
Steal a company, steal news. Seems on brand.
I'm just laughing at all the chicken little comments from those who can't seem to fathom life without social media. This is a good thing that FB has done.
It's time the world put its foot down on these American tech giants. If these controlling fascist social-media giants can shutdown an American President, ... as Macron says, they are trouble for any form of government.
Can we all just delete Facebook for fucks sake?
facebook is resorting to bullying tactics. Not a big deal, just use twitter or direct news sites. Another reason to close my facebook account
DeleteFacebook
No more sharing Fox propaganda. Yeah and good ridence to the troll factory behind all the propaganda.
The emergency pages were a mistake and FB have sorted and apologised. Do see why FB should be penalised for news sites being too expensive for people to want to use them? FacebookAustralia
The government should come down on them even harder. They’re insidious in the way they go about their business, cunning unnatural exploitation of human psyche for profit...
Say what?!?!
Saw a gentleman’s lecture once on YouTube- he said whatever the powers that be have planned for the rest of their global empire- they first try out in their colony Australia.
Great news wish more of it all over the world. Who needs news? Not me anyway
If you get your news from Facebook you need to get out a bit more...
Lucky Australia.
Facebook would do better cutting out hate speech & racist comments on its platforms instead,journalists have to get paid for their work & Facebook wants it for free. Where’s the love.!!!
Its not just news outlets. Its small independent companies like my own. I'm a marketing consultant in the arts and share reviews and arts stories. Many arts companies have also lost their pages.
Most Australians support Facebook- Question: is the Govt doing Murdoch’s work? Most Australians think YES
It's no great loss to us Australians. Less rubbish we see from Murdoch media
Facebook has finally become Tyrannical time to ditch the bastards ..
Bruh
Problem is though that Rupert Murdochs media doesn’t actually write news.... so ....
Absolute Greed of Murdoch whom makes a fortune from Newspapers TV Radio etc hes acting like the German fkn Gestapo with his demands,while he makes billions from peoples misery and lockdown storys.Seems He wants to make a profit from peoples misery,His arrogance will take him down
Facebook Australia was paid nearly $674 million by local advertisers using its platform in 2019, but it trimmed its income tax bill to a little under $17 million through a reselling arrangement that minimised its profits to $22.7 million.. Source AFR 1/6/20
DeleteFacebook is treading 😳 People use twitter for this and probably the % of ppl really delete Facebook will be so low
well i dont actually use facebook for news, cause thats a bad idea, but i have to side with facebook, fuck newscorp
I'm with Facebook on this one. Government overreach in many of the formerly democratic nations, and especially Australia, has got out of hand.
IStandWithFacebookAndGoogle
Here is a message for Facebook, if you don’t like our laws and regulations in Australia you can fuck off. We arexa sovereign nation you are just a cash cow corporation. How will that look in your algorithm?
Why should they pay for news media. Newspapers are a dated business model and they're scared of social media. Sad that people are siding with lobbyists.
Can still get news reports on other social media sites. Can still search for news through google... would think this would only hurt fb with less people now using it in Australia.
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I would like to try an experiment. STEP 1: Share any news story on FB. It should work. STEP 2: Share this 👇 about FB. It won't let you. Very interesting.🤔 BBC News - Facebook Australia: PM Scott Morrison 'will not be intimidated' by tech giant
garyvee what are your thoughts on this stand off? Potential precedents?
Suddenly my Facebook feed has way less junk on it!
Facebook should pay. But really, people need to move on from Facebook. It's cheesy, lame, and out of date. Why do you think FB tries to mimic or just buy out every other platform? Because FB has nothing to offer anyone. DeleteFacebook
fk facbook and news corps arseoles the pr of them.
Isn't this the sort of behaviour Brits were warned to expect from China if we dare buy their Huawei supertech instead of American products? Strikes me that US Tech/Media Giants are seriously losing the moral high ground here HonTonyAbbott BoozeAndFagz
Im really happy that this happened, Facebook feels much more cleaner now, i will go to the news website if I want to read news.
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I wouldn’t buy content from any Murdoch-owned property. Even you.
Facebook action will backfire when other countries follow Australia law. Facebook know once Australia implement this law other countries will follow too.
This is great for Australians; less propaganda on their streams, everyday. The world would be a far better place if all ‘news’ sources, in their current form, just disappeared from the internet.
Facebook will be facing the same law that Australia is introducing. Eventually other countries will follow suit. This is jus fair for the local news and journalist! It is time FB and other social network pay what is die for the journalist!
So, you might think this is crazy but guess what ... in Australia we have television and the whole rest of the internet to get news from. Seriously, who is getting their news from Facebook ?
something something to do with China embargo
Zuck is mad
Facebook has resorted to blackmail. Australians will not tolerate it.
It’s worse than this. It’s also blocking important gov health pages. State Fire alert pages. Small and big business pages.
News banned from Thursday. ABC Fine Music: How to build a Piano. Tarrawarra arts community: exhibition. Messy Nessy: archaeological discoveries in Ireland. Got to get rid of those.
Also blocked critical emergency services, government pages in the middle of a global pandemic. As well as heaps of travel pages, bloggers etc who share information. Really bad form Facebook. You’ve lost our respect Zuckerberg. DeleteFacebook
.... because the news is so worthy 🙄
Please call it out for what it is, a corpo attack on a sovereign country.
These bastards should be boycotted
No one in media reports this accurately. The pretence that Facebook shares content is only true to the extent that outlets make content available for free. If they don't want it shared for free, they use a paywall. Report it for what it is - a conservative gov't helping Rupert.
This is a gross overreach. FB brings Media traffic that it did not work for, but FB sells adspace on the way to your content. Mandating they pay for what is essentially a free service provided to Media and Consumers is insane. FB is in the right.
Watch news corp suffer now
Backlash here in Australia is massive. Facebook only tells you what Facebook want you to know. Very irresponsible considering Govt is about to roll out vaccine.
I see their twitter feed is full of anti racism posturing but meanwhile in FacebookAustralia
Facebook in Australia will be fun again. Australians will get facebook in its intended form. No more fake news going viral and free of propoganda.
Just ban FB from Australia. End of discussion. A new social media will sprout from FB ban.
This is beyond frustrating. It is not only news articles. I live in rural Australia and many small rural health services are also blocked. They are integral to getting public health information out - especially in a pandemic
Meh , lots of people are leaving FB anyway, its tiring, unproductive and encourages stupidity across the spectrum.Facebook is not the internet.
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Aussie here, fuck Rupert Murdoch, I wish him a happy lose all your money. I hope Google doesn't give that man a cent
Fk Mark Zuckerberg & his shyte Facebook Id vote for a Nationalized, Australian government owned 'Facebook' for the Australian People. Then it'd be democraticly accountable to Aussie citizens instead of a bunch of grubby Silicone Valley, Plutocratic, Oligarchs. FacebookAustralia
Best news of the week. Hopefully Aussies will spend less time engaging with the 21st century's version 'Big Tobacco'. The less Facebook in our lives the better.
No, Facebook complies with proposed Australian legislation and news services get shirty, should be the headline.
Meh. Facebook isn't really a legit news sharing platform anyway-so much disinformation there. As an Aussie FB user (until today!) I'll just get my news from legitimate sources, like media websites. Sadly, the ban affected government Covid, emergency and charity sites though.
Ive been trying to block Murdoch trash for years so im happy
I think it’s time each country get their own social media platform time to break the monopoly
Has made big booboos taking down public interest pages, law firms and weather and emergency services pages, as well as political facebook pages and news pages
This is what happens when you got authotarian regime restricting freedom of speech online Oh, sorry forgot to mention this is america, not your average third world dictatorship. Lol 😂
A fair number of people in Australia think this is a good thing. Maybe even most people. It is better for us, and probably better for Facebook.
I feel like this is maybe a Murdoch plot. Could somebody walk me through this? I am a bear of very little brain.
Facebook reaffirms its position as not a publisher of news and information. Fixed it.
Um...
It doesn’t “ramp up” the standover. The standover is done.
Taking down missing children’s’ pages is also a low act. Fuck Fuckbook, who do they think they are?
Cartoon I just drew for the Melbourne Observer
Our government actually thought Facebook took and hosted the news content.
Fantastic filter so any news that “appears” in my feed will definitely be fake!
Screenshot & keep Murdoch out of Facebook. Good on Facebook for standing up against the medical/climate science denying LNP government & ScottyFromMarketing. Poor Aunty ABC; beaten, starved & Murdochratised by LNP, would get no revenue by 'media bargaining code' legislation.
They've cut more that just that
This is only about Murdoch and Lib's having a pissing contest. Quid Pro Quo comes at a cost, I guess they are saying, it is time for Zuckerberg to pay the ferryman.
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Times like this Twitter needs a shock horror emoti
At the same time the insidious toxic sludge filled Murdoch owned, Newscorp, has already made a deal with Google. There is something nasty going on here, especially when Murdoch & the corrupt LNP is involved
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This should ring alarm bells 4 all Australians. The corrupt buyable Rupert Murdoch backed LNP is behind this legislation. Also Nine Entertainment Co. This isn’t about protecting journalists This is about profit & locking out small, less profitable/less powerful independent media
People get news from Facebook? No wonder there are so many idiots out there.
How is this even legal? It can’t be...
Mainstream media Vs. Socialist networks... Don't know which is worse.
I can't wait for laws that'll make tech companies pay users for their personal data that they harvest & sell.
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I can see all of Australia handing Facebook the big fat giant middle finger bird!....
We should pay. By far News Business’ biggest screw up. Giving away content. You can’t get all of them to jump at the same time now to get their subscriptions paid for by users? Hasn’t worked because one charges and the others stay free. Literally killing their own business’.
Leave FB - bring it to it's knees. it's a dying platform anyway.
This move has hampered, by blocking content related to, a fight against the dumping of PFAS near schools, farms and waterways (that goes through the local Werribee Zoo). We need to be able to voice concerns about a repeat of darkwaters
So is this our governments fault? In australia ?
It’s not just the news Facebook has closed down emergency sites, BOM with warnings, Health pages, institutions etc the list goes on. At the start of a vaccine rollout in the midst of a global pandemic with flood warnings bushfire warnings.
cancelfacebook big tech wants to control you.
This is a great step by Australia Too long have these cos have minted profits for free. Time has come for other nations to follow!
Facebook has no right to have any government compiculate to its media organization. Shame on Facebook, pay your way. Shame shame shameful
Someone enlighten me here if I’m missing something, but don’t shares on FB already help bring profit in? I’d imagine that’s a MASSIVE source of clicks to their websites & is completely free. Fuck FB, but it seems like it’s already mutually beneficial to both parties...
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Not just news sites: government department sites, Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland Health, asylum-seeker pages.
I was just talking about this. With big tech scraping news sites, they take all the money that the newspapers would’ve made. Journalism would be so much better if they didn’t have to give away their intellectual property.
Lol
I wish Google had done the same instead of throwing money out the window no one knows what it'll be used for!
absolute Greed Murdoch makes a fortune from newspapers TV Radio etc hes acting like the German gestapo with his demands he makes billions and wants even more, arrogance will take him down.
It seems to me that their team was never really savvy with what their actions and 'shirt-fronting tactics' to tech giants would mean in terms of repercussions to our population's tech access. News sharing/publishing was disrupted decades ago. Not good re FacebookAustralia
They do get we can still type a URL right
Where is my news today in Australia? Oh well, bye bye Facebook hello Twitter.
Lol both Facebook and Twitter have been doing that for years
Typical Facebook - they refuse to pay for anything but make others pay for everything they deem profitable. Plus they sell everyone’s data.
So id pay to NOT see Murdochs trash on FB. Maybe my crazy aunts won’t see it then either.
This is HORRIBLE NEWS for the current Government in Australia re Facebook and Google. They were never really savvy with what their actions & shirt-fronting stances to tech giants would mean in terms of repercussions to the population's access. nytimes MurdochRoyalCommission
Australian here, I'm kind of into it. My feed is just friends and hobbies, no comment section arguments under propaganda. If I want news I can still go to a news website. Highly recommend it.
Should look at it from the point of view that it will stifle the propagation of fake news and misleading information on Facebook.
Google Twitter This move by FB would have pissed off alot of Australians, especially with blocking pages of charities, emergency services etc. This is a great opportunity for you guys to up your game/services
Actually proud of FB for once 👏
Facebook will have little affect with their action. Getting around it is not a problem. The info is out there anyway.
What?
They also nuked police, emergency services (in a state in the midst of bushfires), a suicide support helpline, state government health (so no covid updates) and even the bureau of meteorology pages
Corporations can't dictate policy by holding governments to ransom - they have to sit at the table and talk.
Interesting idea. I do hate to see print journalist taking a hit because people share their work on social without the writers getting reimbursed. That said, I can’t read this WSJ article because I canceled my subscription. If I could convince Twitter to pay the WSJ....
So back to the humble roots of party pics, drunk photos, and selfies in mirrors. Nature is healing
Why does anyone use FB again?
wtf? smry_it tell me more
More lies. That's their first step in trying to take over Australia. Thank the Democrats for that. Trump supporters saw this type of shit coming a mile away. When have we not been 10 steps ahead of the Democrats? TRUMP/CRUZE2024
I hope fb gets shut down or torn into little tiny pieces. They don't know how to handle their own site.
Screw Facebook
Well at least we now know 100% of Facebook news is fake.
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