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🇦🇺🗞 Australia vs Facebook: Both Sides Claim Victory

But it looks Pyrrhic from the Australian government's perspective

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Clark Boyd
Feb 25, 2021
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As we discussed in hi, tech. 75, Facebook made the dramatic decision to remove all news content from its platform in Australia on February 17th.

The argument all centres on whether - and how much - platforms like Facebook and Google should pay for the news content published on their sites.

The Australian government’s position is that these platforms bene…

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