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Facebook said Tuesday it will end its week-long blockade of Australian news sites after reaching agreement with the Australian government on a pending law that forces Facebook and Google to pay news ...

Facebook and Instagram have begun deactivating accounts of children under the age of 16 in Australia, a week before the ...

Facebook users are currently caught in a fight between the social network and the Australian government over the sharing of news on tech platforms. On Wednesday, Facebook banned users in Australia ...

Facebook is going news-free in Australia as the country is steps away from forcing it to pay for the news shared on its platform. Facebook's decision stands in contrast to one from Google, which opted ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

In all these cases, Facebook acted with a kind of supra-national authority, exercising its power with relative impunity. Now, with Australia—a democracy grappling with how to fairly regulate its tech ...

Add this to your 2021 bingo card: Australians cannot read or share any news articles on Facebook. The surprise move comes after the social network decided to block all Australian users from sharing or ...

Facebook is blocking Australian users from seeing, sharing, and interacting with news on the site. Moreover, all Facebook users worldwide aren't able to see news shared by Australian news outlets.