Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announces a compromise has been reached at the 11th hour as the legislation is debated in the SenateFacebook’s capitulation is the beginning of the project to regulate Big Tech
Facebook will restore news to
Australian pages in the next few days after the government agreed to change its landmark media bargaining code that would force the social network and
Google to pay for displaying news content.
Last week, Facebook blocked all news on its platform in Australia, and inadvertently blocked information and government pages, including health and emergency services.