The axe is being pulled up on Facebook’s ban on Australian News Services.
Facebook has decided to reverse its decision to axe some Australian news services from its platform, according to the Australian Financial Review. Moreover, can we be the last to say that it was a stupid idea to cut these services? The social media giant went one step further and dropped charities and government services, too.
All the bigwigs at Facebook care about is money. Journalists are losing income. Their work isn’t being posted to the platform, which generates news organisations hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
Google has also threatened to remove news services too. Moreover, these platforms garner billions of dollars a year. Also, shouldn’t they be happy that people are using the platform to look up news? Now we will pretend we know nothing about what the actual hell is going on with this drama. Do you know what this reminds us of? The Sony-Marvel-Studios-Disney drama that went on for like a month regarding the film rights to Spider-Man. Thank you to Tom Holland for drunkenly saving it.
Back To The Topic
Anyway, back to the actual topic of this post. It doesn’t surprise us in the slightest that it would be some review on whether news content could be shown again. So if only Mark Zuckerberg didn’t pull the axe down, it could then strike a deal with Josh Frydenberg.
To end this post, should people have started the Twitter hashtag #deletefacebook? Ahh…yeah, they should have. It would’ve been the only to get a deal through. Though, we still think that Facebook is being greedy. Finally, we don’t get why news content wasn’t axed from Instagram. After all, Facebook owns Instagram. Finally, we’re only complaining as long as new content comes back to some degree. News flash! It did!
