{"id":5639,"date":"2022-05-06T07:39:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T05:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/facebook-whistleblowers-allege-government-and-emergency-services-hit-by-australia-news-ban-was-a-deliberate-tactic\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T07:39:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T05:39:03","slug":"facebook-whistleblowers-allege-government-and-emergency-services-hit-by-australia-news-ban-was-a-deliberate-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/facebook-whistleblowers-allege-government-and-emergency-services-hit-by-australia-news-ban-was-a-deliberate-tactic\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook whistleblowers allege government and emergency services hit by Australia news ban was a deliberate tactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, formerly Facebook, denies claims the blocking of non-news pages like hospitals and charities was an intentional negotiating tactic, and says it was the result of a \u2018technical error\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/feb\/18\/facebook-to-restrict-australian-users-sharing-news-content\">Facebook blocked hundreds of Australian emergency services and government pages<\/a> during the company\u2019s negotiation with the federal government last year it was not an accident, but rather a deliberate negotiating tactic, company whistleblowers have alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has strenuously denied the claims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/06\/facebook-whistleblowers-allege-government-and-emergency-services-hit-by-australia-news-ban-was-a-deliberate-tactic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8b8c88031c31faa1e679ce476620f47b3263ee7c\/0_315_4724_2835\/master\/4724.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=731134e4aa6d97400fab7908a1aba84b\" title=\"Facebook whistleblowers allege government and emergency services hit by Australia news ban was a deliberate tactic\" \/>Meta, formerly Facebook, denies claims the blocking of non-news pages like hospitals and charities was an intentional negotiating tactic, and says it was the result of a \u2018technical error\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>When Facebook blocked hundreds of Australian emergency services and government pages during the company\u2019s negotiation with the federal government last year it was not an accident, but rather a deliberate negotiating tactic, company whistleblowers have alleged.<br \/>\nMeta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has strenuously denied the claims.<br \/>\nSign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, formerly Facebook, denies claims the blocking of non-news pages like hospitals and charities was an intentional negotiating tactic, and says it was the result of a \u2018technical error\u2019 Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing When Facebook blocked hundreds of Australian emergency services and government pages during the company\u2019s negotiation with &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/facebook-whistleblowers-allege-government-and-emergency-services-hit-by-australia-news-ban-was-a-deliberate-tactic\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook whistleblowers allege government and emergency services hit by Australia news ban was a deliberate tactic<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5640,"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\/5639"}],"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=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}