Facebook’s New Look in Australia: News and Hospitals Out, Aliens Still In (Published 2021)
The social network’s decision to block journalism rather than pay for it erased more than expected, leaving many outraged and debating what should happen next.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/business/media/facebook-australia-news.html
And then Australians discovered it wasn’t just those staples that were missing. Pages for state health departments and emergency services were also wiped clean. The Bureau of Meteorology, providing weather data in the middle of fire season — blank. An opposition candidate running for office in Western Australia, just a few weeks from an election — every message, gone.