Fears grow Meta will block news on Facebook and Instagram as Australian government faces pressure to act

Publishers and politicians are siding against Meta and urging the government to force the company to pay for news

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Meta will either reduce the amount of news people see or block it entirely on Facebook and Instagram, experts and publishers warn, as the government faces pressure to require Meta to show news content and pay for it.

Meta informed publishers nearly a month ago that it would not enter new multimillion-dollar deals for content when the current contracts expire this year. Since then the Albanese government has kicked off a process to potentially designate the tech company under the news media bargaining code (NMBC).

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