Facebook's page in Australia appeared to be banned following its announcement that it would be banning news publications on its Australia platform. What's Undetermined As of this writing, it remains ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. SYDNEY – More than a dozen years ago, the US Federal Trade Commission sponsored an ominously titled workshop, “How Will ...

Australian Facebook users and Pages will have their ability to share news links restored in the coming days, according to a statement released on Tuesday afternoon by the country's federal treasurer ...

Facebook and Google are taking vastly different approaches to an escalating battle in Australia that could reset the relationship between tech and media. But Google (GOOGL) — which just a month ago ...

Canberra, Australia-- Australia's Parliament passed legislation on Thursday that could imprison social media executives if their platforms stream real violence such as the New Zealand mosque shootings ...

CNN says it will no longer publish content to Facebook in Australia. The decision comes after the country’s highest court ruled that media companies are liable for comments people post under articles ...

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. If you’re reading this, it’s not because someone you know posted it on Facebook. Though most readers ...

Facebook is facing mounting criticism after it blocked news content in Australia amid a dispute with the government over a planned law. The law will force tech giants to pay for news content on their ...

Facebook has overturned a decision to block news on its platform in Australia Australia has passed a world-first law aimed at making Google and Facebook pay for news content on their platforms. The ...

Facebook will restore news pages in Australia after the government agreed to change a proposed law forcing tech companies to pay publishers for news content. "Facebook has refriended Australia," said ...

With Australia moving to make the tech companies pay for news, Facebook took a hard line, while Google has struck deals to pay publishers. By Mike Isaac Daisuke Wakabayashi Damien Cave and Edmund Lee ...