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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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But first...

A dispute between Australian lawmakers and American tech giants took a dramatic turn this week.

For months, the government has been debating a new media code that would force the likes of Google and Facebook to pay traditional news outlets when linking to their content.

The code was approved on Wednesday by Australia's lower house of parliament and is expected to pass in the Senate next week.

On the same day, Google announced a three-year deal with news court, the Rupert Murdock-owned conglomerate that has a big presence in Australia's broadcast market.

Google's decision to pay up in line with the proposed legislation was seen as a move to placate lawmakers. But Facebook took a different approach.

Australians waking up yesterday to see the news wouldn't have actually seen any news if they get their news from Facebook because on that day Facebook decided to block all news articles in Australia.

Tom Wainwright is our media editor.

Facebook tried to ban just news websites. That was the intention, but it used some kind of machine learning method which didn't seem to go very well because as well as banning news sites, they banned all kinds of other things.

Charities, a fire service, health services, a project for children with cancer, and most of those were reasonably quickly corrected. But in PR terms, the damage was done. People were outraged.

Why exactly were people outraged?

Well, people are outraged about the fact that so many things have been blocked that weren't supposed to be blocked.

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