{"id":5849,"date":"2022-05-28T20:40:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T18:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/28\/deliberate-ploy-whistleblowers-reveal-why-facebooks-australia-news-ban-included-non-news-sites\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T18:40:41","slug":"deliberate-ploy-whistleblowers-reveal-why-facebooks-australia-news-ban-included-non-news-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/28\/deliberate-ploy-whistleblowers-reveal-why-facebooks-australia-news-ban-included-non-news-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Deliberate ploy: whistleblowers reveal why Facebook\u2019s Australia news ban included non-news sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees within Meta say the move amid the standoff with the Morrison government was no accident<\/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<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three hours into Facebook\u2019s Australian news blackout on 17 February 2021, a concerned employee sent a note to colleagues at the social media company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralian news ban took down pages that are not news sources,\u201d the note said, pointing to blocked government pages, fire and emergency services, official health pages and domestic violence charities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/29\/deliberate-ploy-whistleblowers-reveal-why-facebooks-australia-news-ban-included-non-news-sites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0b0495ed123c2f3d1f61684adb82bbcc759aae1f\/0_44_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d63ed28b8d1a456f1e186ecf912b9966\" title=\"Deliberate ploy: whistleblowers reveal why Facebook\u2019s Australia news ban included non-news sites\" \/>Employees within Meta say the move amid the standoff with the Morrison government was no accident<\/p>\n<p>Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/p>\n<p>Three hours into Facebook\u2019s Australian news blackout on 17 February 2021, a concerned employee sent a note to colleagues at the social media company.<br \/>\n\u201cAustralian news ban took down pages that are not news sources,\u201d the note said, pointing to blocked government pages, fire and emergency services, official health pages and domestic violence charities. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees within Meta say the move amid the standoff with the Morrison government was no accident Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Three hours into Facebook\u2019s Australian news blackout on 17 February 2021, a concerned employee sent a note to colleagues &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/28\/deliberate-ploy-whistleblowers-reveal-why-facebooks-australia-news-ban-included-non-news-sites\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deliberate ploy: whistleblowers reveal why Facebook\u2019s Australia news ban included non-news sites<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5850,"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\/5849"}],"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=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}