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 Blocks News in Australia, Diverging With Google on Proposed Law. With Australia moving to make the tech companies pay for news, Facebook took a hard line, while Google has struck deals to ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook shut down news sharing in Australia, and Google threatened to pull out of the country altogether over a new media law. But that’s not stopping regulators in other countries from ...

How Australia May Have Just Saved Journalism From Big Tech 6 minute read The Facebook page for the Sydney Morning Herald on a laptop in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.

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 ...