If the current situation continues, it may leave Facebook operating much more like the Chinese platform WeChat, where news is ruled by platform-specific content houses cranking out huge volumes of low-quality articles.
Caroline Fisher, Kerry McCallum, Kieran McGuinness, and Sora ParkFebruary 19, 2021
Newspaper closures and job losses have hit areas outside Australian cities hard. Removing news from Facebook will further restrict the choices of people with already limited access to news.
Lifestyle and youth publishers that source the majority of their traffic from Facebook face closure, while traditional media players that campaigned for the laws look set to be the relative winners.
Benton, Joshua. "In Australia, a new government policy adds protections for journalists, but leaves whistleblowers out in the cold (and leaves plenty of questions)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 13 Aug. 2019. Web. 26 Apr. 2024.
APA
Benton, J. (2019, Aug. 13). In Australia, a new government policy adds protections for journalists, but leaves whistleblowers out in the cold (and leaves plenty of questions). Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/08/in-australia-a-new-government-policy-adds-protections-for-journalists-but-leaves-whistleblowers-out-in-the-cold/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "In Australia, a new government policy adds protections for journalists, but leaves whistleblowers out in the cold (and leaves plenty of questions)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 13, 2019. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/08/in-australia-a-new-government-policy-adds-protections-for-journalists-but-leaves-whistleblowers-out-in-the-cold/.
Wikipedia
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