Facebook's move to block news publishers in Australia may create an even stronger backlash against the company, adding fuel to arguments that it has too much power.

Facebook’s New Look in Australia: News and Hospitals Out, Aliens Still In. The social network’s decision to block journalism rather than pay for it erased more than expected, leaving many ...

Facebook said it would restrict the “sharing and viewing” of Australian and international news content on its platform in Australia. The announcement comes amid Australian regulators ...

Let’s first look specifically at Facebook referrals — traffic that comes from Facebook’s properties to an Australian news publisher’s website. This is what happened to Facebook referral traffic from ...

Group 1: It’s Facebook’s Fault, and It Was Intentional. Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s federal treasurer, who would be charged with overseeing how the law was carried out, was among the first ...

Updated 8:45 p.m. ET . Facebook said Wednesday that it is preventing people inside Australia from accessing news stories on its platform. In addition, Facebook users elsewhere will not be able to ...

Facebook’s stunning announcement suggests that the company is willing to stand up to Australia where Google has backed down. So far, though, it appears that the search giant might be playing the ...

Australia’s efforts to make Facebook and Google pay for news has pushed the global debate over Big Tech regulation to a new level. Other countries are following, a sign of how widespread the ...

Facebook's own page wasn't the only one that was affected by the broad ban in Australia. As The New York Times reported, government agencies and various public welfare organizations were also banned: ...

Meta is shutting down Facebook News in the United States and Australia in April 2024. It will also let remaining licensing deals end and says it’s not making new products for news publishers.

Australia's Federal Court also ordered Meta, through its subsidiaries Facebook Israel and the now-discontinued app, Onavo, to pay A$400,000 in legal costs to the Australian Competition and ...