DISINFORMED: Facebook’s bans news in Australia is silencing activists
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Facebook’s hasty ban on all news content in Australia has already had far reaching consequences. Digital organizer and founder of OrganiseUs, Tabatha Fulker, explains the impact this is already having on digital activists in Australia.
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| 0:33.1 | You're listening to Disinformed. |
| 0:35.2 | A mini-series from There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Bridget Todd. |
| 0:42.6 | This week, Australian social media users suddenly found themselves banned from sharing content on Facebook. |
| 0:48.3 | This was an escalation of Facebook's attempts to resist the Australian government's push |
| 0:52.1 | to make big tech companies pay news publishers |
| 0:54.9 | when news content shows up in their search results and their platforms. And according to FT, |
| 0:59.9 | it's one of the most far-reaching restrictions Facebook has ever placed on publishers in any |
| 1:03.8 | part of the world. This comes as Google struck a separate deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp |
| 1:08.1 | to pay for some of their news content, resolving their |
| 1:10.8 | ongoing dispute with the Australian media giant. |
| 1:13.8 | Last month, Google threatened to pull out of Australia altogether. |
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