As the revenue sharing for content of the media between the Big Tech and media publishers hots up in Australia, Google threatens to remove its search engine and Facebook unfriends Australia. In February 2021, Australians woke up to empty Facebook news feeds after the Facebook blocks all media content in a surprise escalation of a dispute with the government. It has cut essential information services on health and emergency services.
Australia officially calls this arrogant behaviour. All this has happened in the wake of a draft bill to pay for the content. Facebook intends to block Australian users from sharing or viewing news. Australian government is standing by the law.
Since then, an understanding has been reached between Facebook and the Australian government and Facebook services has been restored there.
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