{"id":561,"date":"2021-02-18T00:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban\/"},"modified":"2021-02-18T00:52:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:52:04","slug":"facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook blocks health departments, charities and its own pages in botched Australia news ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media company ban on the sharing of news has also affected dozens of government, not-for-profit and community pages<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Meteorology, state health departments, the Western Australian opposition leader, charities, and Facebook itself are among those to have been blocked on Facebook in Australia as a result of the company\u2019s wide-ranging ban on sharing or viewing news. .<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/feb\/18\/facebook-to-restrict-australian-users-sharing-news-content\">Facebook began preventing Australian news sites<\/a> from posting, while also stopping Australian users from sharing or viewing content from any news outlets, both Australian and international.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/18\/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3ca85a7c6045af4643a1565058348ce6d499750c\/0_171_3500_2099\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=93ce630f5b5b96fbbfa416957582d5b3\" title=\"Facebook blocks health departments, charities and its own pages in botched Australia news ban\" \/>Social media company ban on the sharing of news has also affected dozens of government, not-for-profit and community pages<br \/>\nThe Bureau of Meteorology, state health departments, the Western Australian opposition leader, charities, and Facebook itself are among those to have been blocked on Facebook in Australia as a result of the company\u2019s wide-ranging ban on sharing or viewing news. .<br \/>\nOn Thursday morning, Facebook began preventing Australian news sites from posting, while also stopping Australian users from sharing or viewing content from any news outlets, both Australian and international. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media company ban on the sharing of news has also affected dozens of government, not-for-profit and community pages The Bureau of Meteorology, state health departments, the Western Australian opposition leader, charities, and Facebook itself are among those to have been blocked on Facebook in Australia as a result of the company\u2019s wide-ranging ban on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook blocks health departments, charities and its own pages in botched Australia news ban<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}