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Facebook has threatened to prevent residents and websites from posting content on its platform.
Facebook recently threatened Australia with depriving its media institutions and residents of publishing local and international news, should a law pass that requires online platforms to pay for the content of news published on it. The British newspaper “The Guardian” reported that the Blue site had threatened to prevent users from posting news, as well as on the “Instagram” platform, if the law was passed, noting that personal content would not be affected in Australia. Australian law is based on the idea of supporting large media organizations, in an attempt to find a way to compensate for the losses suffered by the media due to social media, especially Facebook, which takes over the ads, in a time when figures compiled by the University of Canberra showed that about 39% of Australians rely on Facebook for general news, and 49% of them rely on it to track news about the coronavirus. “If this law is passed, we will prevent media organizations and individuals from publishing local and international news,” said Facebook’s regional director for Australia and New Zealand, Will Easton.
