Non-motoring > Spat about News, Facebook & Australia Company Cars
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New Thu 18 Feb 21 19:45 
 Spat about News, Facebook & Australia - No FM2R
www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56116738

The way the news companies and politicians are baying one might almost think they need Facebook more than they were admitting.

Certainly the News Companies' issue seems to be that Facebook think it is more powerful than they are.

I do sometimes wonder if the ridiculousness is just to continue to snowball until one day the world goes pop.



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New Thu 18 Feb 21 21:37 
 Spat about News, Facebook & Australia - Bromptonaut
Thank you. The Douglas Adams quote amply catches the thoughts I had trying to make sense of this on the six o'clock news.
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New Fri 19 Feb 21 06:37 
 Spat about News, Facebook & Australia - sooty123
As I'm not a massive user of fb, I didn't know so many people used it for reading the news. I don't think I've ever used to read a news report.

I see Google have decided to play ball, however that only got a very short foot note at the bottom of the article. I think a compare and contrast article between the two companies and how they are acting in light of this law would have been more interesting.
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New Tue 23 Feb 21 04:38 
 Spat about News, Facebook & Australia - sooty123
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56165015

Fb to restart news on its aussie site.
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