Facebook Cancelling Australia (and Me!)
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 2021-02-19

Facebook is in the process of cancelling Australian news on its platform. They’ve decided the best way to deal with the proposed media bargaining law in Australia is to just delete all the news. The law would force tech companies to negotiate with media companies over how much to pay them for news content. But obviously, Facebook aren’t willing to pay a single cent. Major publishers, the ABC News for example, are now restricted from sharing or posting any content on Facebook. There is now just a simple message stating, “No posts yet”. This move by Facebook means that any person in Australia can no longer get access to their news via the Facebook site. Unfortunately, the Facebook saga has resulted in some rather innocent pages being taken down. The Bureau of Meteorology for example suffered the same fate. They had issued several severe weather warnings for parts of Queensland’s Far North that were not visible on Facebook, so obviously, this could have been a real safety issue. Thank goodness Facebook came to their senses and reversed some of its changes, allowing government services to continue posting on the website with one lady writing, “Welcome back it’s a weather page not news. Without weather updates we wouldn’t know what was going on. You do a good job”. Okay, you could argue with some of the things she had to say, but the point is clear. Some people rely on Facebook for news and weather. Queensland Health also got cancelled briefly, but now they’re back up and running giving out their latest health advice. I know a few people who solely use Facebook for these health updates. Even universities have been targeted. Bond University’s Facebook page, for example, is still offline. And guess who else got caught up in all of this mass cancellation. Yours truly! I tried to access my Facebook Page yesterday and I was met with a message saying “This page isn’t available”. You’ve got to love big corporations in charge of our information infrastructure!

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