Facebook’s brief but tempestuous standoff with the Australian government over a world-first pay-for-news law is only the start of a string of regulatory battles that the world’s biggest social network faces in 2021.
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Facebook’s dramatic move to block Australian news-sharing has escalated a broader battle against global regulation. That gambit looks likely to backfire.
WhatsApp will go ahead with its controversial privacy policy update but will allow users to read it at “their own pace” and will also display a banner providing additional information.
Facebook internal e-mails made public in court reveal an employee’s concerns the company misrepresented advertisers’ estimated audience, calling the practice “deeply wrong”.
When prospectors made what was the biggest oil discovery in history at Texas’s Spindletop well in 1901, the world’s premier oil monopolist was absent from the scene.
Facebook’s move to block the sharing of articles from Australian news media has swept up government information outlets like the weather bureau, nonprofit charities and even political satire pages.
The party will request that Facebook be summoned to appear in parliament to face questions about its role in “misinformation” and the protection of digital privacy of South African users.
Google last month said it would likely pull its core search function from Australia if the government pushes ahead with a plan to require it to pay media companies an indeterminate fee for news snippets.
Twitter is building a subscription product as a way to ease its dependence on advertising – a plan that has taken on a heightened priority given the pandemic and pressure from activist investors to accelerate growth.
Microsoft is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday.