Facebook Just Banned News in Australia. Like, All of It.

The social network is taking the nuclear option in response to a proposed law that would force it to pay publishers

Will Oremus
OneZero
Published in
4 min readFeb 17, 2021

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Facebook announced Wednesday that it will no longer allow links to news articles in Australia — period. That means Australian users won’t be able to link to any news articles…

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