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Axel Bruns, Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology

If Meta bans news in Australia, what will happen? Canada’s experience is telling

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At a parliamentary hearing late last week, Meta once again suggested it could ban links to news on Facebook and Instagram in Australia.

This would repeat the ban it enacted for more than a week in February 2021. That ban was in response to the introduction of the News Media Bargaining Code, an Australian law designed to force digital platforms to pass on some of their advertising earnings to news publishers.

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