Facebook blocks Australia’s news
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The social giant takes down news content ahead of a new law that would force it to pay media publishers. Plus, are digital vaccine certificates or passports essential for a return to normal life or a bad idea that could entrench inequality? And yet more evidence that the global auto industry is racing to electric vehicles. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter David Molloy. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Credit: Getty Images).
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| 0:45.4 | trends from the technology world. I'm Rory Ketland-Jones, and this week, Facebook versus Australia. |
| 0:51.7 | The Tech Giant bans the sharing of news content there in protested |
| 0:56.0 | against an Australian law which would make it pay for it. But has Mark Zuckerberg overplayed his |
| 1:02.2 | hand. As COVID vaccines roll out across the world, there's increasing demand from businesses |
| 1:07.2 | for some digital means of showing who's had the jab. |
| 1:15.5 | But a data think tank tells us vaccine passports are a really bad idea. |
| 1:20.3 | And as car giants Ford and Jaguar unveil plans to go electric, |
| 1:25.5 | are they going to win back lost ground in the battle with tech newcomers to the motor industry? |
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