Facebook changes specifications to 'cannot post & link to any news articles' in Australia
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Facebook announced on February 17, 2021 that it will limit Australian users and publishers from sharing and viewing domestic and international news content. In Australia, the 'News Media Negotiation Law' that obliges major IT companies to pay news usage fees is being enacted, and Facebook has become more repulsive.
Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia --About Facebook
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/
Facebook blocks Australia news --Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/facebook-blocks-news-australia
Facebook will block Australian users and publishers from sharing news links in response to new bill --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287776/facebook-block-news-australia-regulation-media-link-sharing
There have been a series of criticisms against major IT companies such as Facebook that they have been making a lot of money by visiting news sites, extracting article information, and distributing it. .. In response, Australian authorities were developing legislation requiring large IT companies to distribute the revenue from news content to publishers.
Government moves to create rules to distribute the revenue that Google and Facebook earn from news collection and distribution to existing media --GIGAZINE
Google responded by issuing a statement against Australia's move to require payment of news royalties, saying that 'services provided free of charge will be threatened.' Facebook also hinted that it would severely limit the use of news articles, saying that it would have to ban news sharing in Australia.
Facebook could ban users from sharing news, following Australia's new bill-GIGAZINE
Meanwhile, Facebook updated its official blog on February 17, saying, 'In response to the news media negotiation law being discussed in Australia, we are sharing news content both domestically and internationally with Australian publishers and people in Australia. We will limit you from doing and browsing. '
This restriction restricts Australian publishers from posting and sharing news content on Facebook. Publishers outside Australia can post news, but Australian users will not be able to view or share domestic or international news, which will severely limit their use of foreign news. I will. In addition, Facebook users around the world will not be able to view or share Australian news.
'The new bill fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between our platform and the publishers that use it to deliver news content,' said William Easton, managing director of Facebook Australia, about the reason for this decision. We regret to say that we chose the latter because we were forced to make a strict choice between complying with laws that ignored this relationship and stopping the use of news content in Australia. ' doing.
According to Easton, the news displayed on Facebook's news feed is less than 4% of the total content, so the impact of this news usage restriction on the company will be minor.
In addition, Google, which has been fiercely resisting the new law with Facebook, has softened its attitude, and on February 4, 2021, 'We will start a'Google News Showcase'in Australia to distribute news in partnership with the news media.'
Like Google's news showcase, Facebook also planned to launch 'Facebook News' in Australia, which aggregates and distributes articles and pays news usage fees to the media, but with this announcement The blank page has been withdrawn.
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Facebook says it will limit the posting of articles by news publishers, but it has already been reported that posts have disappeared from the pages of Australian health authorities and meteorological agencies.
Posts disappear from pages of health authorities, Bureau of Meteorology amid Facebook news ban --ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-18/bom-health-authorities-betoota-caught-in-facebook-news-ban/13166394
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