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No more Australian news in the news feed as Facebook escalates row with Australia

on Feb 18, 2021 | 0 comments

By Shawn Lim

Facebook has joined Google in blocking news articles from being shared on its news feed in Australia as a form of protest against the country’s proposed mandatory code of conduct for tech platforms.

Alphabet-owned Google has already blocked Australian news sites from its search results for about 1% of local users, officially announcing this exercise as a test run, with the intention to provide a preview of the effect a change like this could deliver, should the code become law in its current form.

Google has also threatened to remove its search engine from Australia which could see Read full story ›

Source: The Drum