Facebook to Resist Australia Law on Payments, Will Halt News Sharing

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Social media giant, Facebook says that it would rather cut people’s access to news in Australia than comply with the country’s proposed law which would make it pay local news publishers. On Tuesday…

than comply with the country’s proposed law which would make it pay local news publishers.

The company offered to launch its own Facebook News service in the country and said it was prepared to invest more in the Facebook Journalism Project. “News organizations… encourage readers to share news across social platforms to increase readership of their stories. This in turn allows them to sell more subscriptions and advertising. Over the first five months of 2020 we sent 2.3 billion clicks from Facebook’s News Feed back to Australian news websites at no charge – additional traffic worth an estimated $200 million to Australian publishers.”

 

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