Deliberate ploy: whistleblowers reveal why Facebook’s Australia news ban included non-news sites
by Josh Taylor from Technology | The Guardian on (#5ZREY)
Employees within Meta say the move amid the standoff with the Morrison government was no accident
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Three hours into Facebook's Australian news blackout on 17 February 2021, a concerned employee sent a note to colleagues at the social media company.
Australian news ban took down pages that are not news sources," the note said, pointing to blocked government pages, fire and emergency services, official health pages and domestic violence charities.
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