The big news publishers in Australia are in an almighty stand-off with Mark Zuckerberg and the tech giant he heads.
Meta runs Facebook and has decided its users don’t care for news content anymore and it doesn’t want to pay for it.
The Australian government now faces a choice; pursue Facebook and risk all news being blocked from the site, or let the funding deals currently in place with media companies come to an end, putting journalists’ jobs in jeopardy.
Today, is it game over for journalism when social media dumps news?
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