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Author: DRN1

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Australian’s woke up to a very different style of the social media platform Facebook today. With news and media companies having their Facebook page removed.

In a statement released on facebook.com the company said “The proposed law fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between our platform and publishers who use it to share news content.” Facebook went on to say “News makes up less than 4% of the content people see in their News Feed.”

Questions now on what classifies as news is being called into question with some government pages as well as Facebook’s own page being banned here in Australia. Pages for DFES, SA Health, Victoria Health pages and others no longer being able to be accessed on Facebook. While pages like 10 News Perth somehow did not get struct by the Facebook delete hammer.

Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said the removal of some government health pages was a "big issue of concern".

"Anything that removes credible and reliable information sources in the midst of a global pandemic is beyond regrettable and needs to be fixed," he said.

In Western Australia political personalities seem to also be classified as news/media with the opposition leader Zak Kirkup receiving the same treatment as news organisations and being removed from the platform. It is unclear at this stage if Zak Kirkup is upset about his Facebook being classified as news.

While media companies are all kicking and screaming and telling Australian’s that we are unhappy and angry that Facebook has removed news media companies from a platform that is a private company that you as a person and/or business have to sign up to use. The question I ask is are we? Like really do you want your news feed full of crappy news?

People connected to me in Facebook are saying how they love the fact news media is not allowed in Facebook. After all should we get our news from a social media site?

At the end of the day, either Facebook will unblock these pages or risk the Australian government forcefully banning the service from Australia. So to the people who think Facebook is being a bully by blocking media companies just watch our government and media companies as they have been trying and in some cases succeeding (Google V Media) bullying large successful companies when their media/news companies have been on a downward spiral for some time now.

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