And Facebook is profiting from all that eyeball time: it raked in $673.9m in the last calendar year in Australia. Facebook's threat to block Australians from sharing news is a premature overreaction | Allan Fels Read moreUnlike media outlets, however, Facebook is not held responsible for the content it publishes. Australian Facebook users will suffer because they can neither share nor read accurate news and information with our friends and family. It provides a rich seam of behavioural data for a data harvesting company – which is what Facebook is. I hope they can make these platforms acknowledge the value of fact-checked and accurate information, of news content, in a world awash with misinformation.

Source: The Guardian September 02, 2020 17:26 UTC