{"id":621,"date":"2021-02-21T01:10:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T00:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/charities-condemn-facebook-for-attack-on-democracy-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T01:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T00:10:53","slug":"charities-condemn-facebook-for-attack-on-democracy-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/charities-condemn-facebook-for-attack-on-democracy-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Charities condemn Facebook for \u2018attack on democracy\u2019 in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaign groups say blocking access to reliable news sources leaves a void to be filled by misinformation and hate speech<\/p>\n

Members of Facebook\u2019s oversight board, which some have likened to an internal \u201csupreme court\u201d, have been called on to speak out or step down after the platform shut down swathes of media and key public information sites<\/a> during a battle with the Australian government.<\/p>\n

The social media giant suspended pages \u2013 including those of government bodies and state health departments before the national coronavirus vaccine rollout \u2013 as part of a showdown with officials over a new law that would force it and other platforms to pay for links to news content.<\/p>\n

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\nCampaign groups say blocking access to reliable news sources leaves a void to be filled by misinformation and hate speech
\nMembers of Facebook\u2019s oversight board, which some have likened to an internal \u201csupreme court\u201d, have been called on to speak out or step down after the platform shut down swathes of media and key public information sites during a battle with the Australian government.
\nThe social media giant suspended pages \u2013 including those of government bodies and state health departments before the national coronavirus vaccine rollout \u2013 as part of a showdown with officials over a new law that would force it and other platforms to pay for links to news content. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaign groups say blocking access to reliable news sources leaves a void to be filled by misinformation and hate speech Members of Facebook\u2019s oversight board, which some have likened to an internal \u201csupreme court\u201d, have been called on to speak out or step down after the platform shut down swathes of media and key public …<\/p>\n

Charities condemn Facebook for \u2018attack on democracy\u2019 in Australia<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":622,"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\/621"}],"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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}