Social media giant Facebook has banned news links on its platform in Australia because of a law forcing tech giants to pay for journalism.
Politicians in the country are considering forcing digital businesses to reach paid-for-news agreements with media companies in a so-called News Media Bargaining Code.
The code would create an arbitration panel to set a price for news in situations where Google and Facebook do not reach deals with media businesses whose original journalism they link to.
In a shock move, Facebook, co-founded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, announced on Wednesday that publishers in the country would be banned from sharing or viewing news on the platform from Australia or from anywhere else.
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