Opinion

Facebook's provocation over your news will hurt democracy

By Dr Alexandra Wake
Updated September 3 2020 - 8:39am, first published 7:00am
PROVOCATION: Users should be upset by Facebook's threat to pull all Australian news from its platform. Picture: Shutterstock
PROVOCATION: Users should be upset by Facebook's threat to pull all Australian news from its platform. Picture: Shutterstock

There are good reasons to be concerned by Facebook's angry threat this week to stop allowing Australian news to be shared on its platform because of a proposed code that will require it to pay commercial publishers for their journalism.

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