{"id":563,"date":"2021-02-18T07:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T06:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/time-to-reactivate-myspace-the-day-australia-woke-up-to-a-facebook-news-blackout\/"},"modified":"2021-02-18T07:16:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T06:16:18","slug":"time-to-reactivate-myspace-the-day-australia-woke-up-to-a-facebook-news-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/time-to-reactivate-myspace-the-day-australia-woke-up-to-a-facebook-news-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Time to reactivate MySpace&#8217;: the day Australia woke up to a Facebook news blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook users flocked to Twitter to complain about the ban, which also struck community pages, health departments, charities and politicians<br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/feb\/18\/facebook-to-restrict-australian-users-sharing-news-content\">Facebook blocks Australian users and publishers from viewing or sharing news<\/a> <br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/18\/blocking-australian-news-shows-facebooks-pledge-to-fight-misinformation-is-farcical\">Blocking Australian news shows Facebook\u2019s pledge to fight misinformation is farcical<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 5.30am Australian east coast time, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/sep\/01\/facebook-instagram-threatens-block-australians-sharing-news-landmark-accc-media-law\">months of threats and failed attempts to lobby the government<\/a> over proposed new media laws, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/feb\/18\/facebook-to-restrict-australian-users-sharing-news-content\">Facebook banned the sharing of news in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first to notice were morning news producers. The main page of the national broadcaster, ABC, was down. Guardian Australia\u2019s page was also down. Australians trying to post links to news publishers on their personal Facebook pages received an error message.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/18\/time-to-reactivate-myspace-the-day-australia-woke-up-to-a-facebook-news-blackout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/793bad0ba767c409cbf2a250da8e66efc22d520f\/0_116_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dd7bd5910f91016f79c2113704525903\" title=\"'Time to reactivate MySpace': the day Australia woke up to a Facebook news blackout\" \/>Facebook users flocked to Twitter to complain about the ban, which also struck community pages, health departments, charities and politicians\u2022 Facebook blocks Australian users and publishers from viewing or sharing news \u2022 Blocking Australian news shows Facebook\u2019s pledge to fight misinformation is farcical<br \/>\nAt 5.30am Australian east coast time, after months of threats and failed attempts to lobby the government over proposed new media laws, Facebook banned the sharing of news in Australia.<br \/>\nThe first to notice were morning news producers. The main page of the national broadcaster, ABC, was down. Guardian Australia\u2019s page was also down. Australians trying to post links to news publishers on their personal Facebook pages received an error message. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook users flocked to Twitter to complain about the ban, which also struck community pages, health departments, charities and politicians\u2022 Facebook blocks Australian users and publishers from viewing or sharing news \u2022 Blocking Australian news shows Facebook\u2019s pledge to fight misinformation is farcical At 5.30am Australian east coast time, after months of threats and failed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/time-to-reactivate-myspace-the-day-australia-woke-up-to-a-facebook-news-blackout\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Time to reactivate MySpace&#8217;: the day Australia woke up to a Facebook news blackout<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":564,"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\/563"}],"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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}