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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Josh Taylor

Facebook’s potential news ban already affecting smaller Australian media outlets, inquiry told

Phone screen with Facebook logo and Australian newspapers
The larger news publishers, while also concerned about a news ban, were less worried about any potential for Meta to pull out of Australia entirely. Photograph: Reuters

Smaller publishers are already feeling the effects of a potential ban on news on Facebook, a parliamentary committee has heard, as news outlets small and large make the case for social media companies to be compelled to pay for news.

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, announced in March it would not enter into new agreements with news companies to pay for news, following the end of contracts signed in 2021 under the Morrison government’s news media bargaining code.

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