• Send Us A Tip
  • Calling all Tech Writers
  • Advertise
Sunday, July 5, 2026
  • Login
TechStory
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
TechStory
No Result
View All Result
Home Business

Facebook has ‘tentatively friended’ us again, Australia says

by Smriti Sharma
February 20, 2021 - Updated On February 21, 2021
in Business
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
Facebook
TwitterWhatsappLinkedin

Facebook

You might also like

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy Quits X, Calls Platform a Threat to Healthy Public Debate

OpenAI Plans Sharp AI Price Cuts As Anthropic Rivalry Heats Up Ahead Of Both Companies’ IPOs

Microsoft Launches Frontier Company With 6,000 Engineers And $2.5 Billion To Fix Enterprise AI Adoption Problem

Facebook Inc is again at the arranging table, according to the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison who cited this on Saturday after the tech giant this week blocked all the news on its site in the country from various sources.

Facebook’s unexpected choice to abstain Australians from sharing or viewing news on the site and strip the pages of homegrown and unfamiliar media sources additionally deleting a few state government and crisis office accounts, causing far-reaching outrage.

Morrison told a news meeting in Sydney that the organization has probably friended them once more. What he is satisfied with is that Facebook is once again at the table once more.

Facebook has openly demonstrated no adjustment in its resistance to a proposed law requiring online media stages to pay for connections to news content. Morrison was not gotten some information about that.

Australia’s financial officer Josh Frydenberg said on Friday he had spoken with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and further talks were normal over the course of the end of the week. Delegates for Frydenberg didn’t promptly react to demands for input.

The stalemate comes as Australia’s promises to press ahead with the milestone enactment, which could set a worldwide point of reference as nations like Canada express interest in making a comparable move.

The Australian law, which would constrain Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google to arrive at business manages Australian distributors or face mandatory discretion, has cleared the lower place of parliament and is required to be passed by the Senate inside the following week.

Canadian legacy serves Steven Guilbeault said on Thursday his nation would receive the Australian methodology as it makes its enactment in coming months.

Google, which has at first threatened to close its web index in Australia, has reported a host of preemptive authorizing bargains over the previous week, incorporating a worldwide concurrence with News Corp.

Facebook’s move promptly affected traffic to Australian new destinations, as per early information from New York-based investigation firm Chartbeat.

All out traffic to the Australian news destinations from different stages tumbled from the day preceding the boycott by around 13% inside the country.

 

Tweet54SendShare15
Previous Post

White House working with social media to tackle anti-vaxxers

Next Post

Apple in Talks to Buy Self-Driving Sensors for Apple car

Smriti Sharma

Recommended For You

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy Quits X, Calls Platform a Threat to Healthy Public Debate

by Ishaan Negi
July 5, 2026
0
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy Quits X, Calls Platform a Threat to Healthy Public Debate

The debate over social media's role in modern society has taken another dramatic turn. UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced that she is leaving X (formerly Twitter),...

Read more

OpenAI Plans Sharp AI Price Cuts As Anthropic Rivalry Heats Up Ahead Of Both Companies’ IPOs

by Rounak Majumdar
July 4, 2026
0
OpenAI Plans Sharp AI Price Cuts As Anthropic Rivalry Heats Up Ahead Of Both Companies' IPOs

The AI industry's two most famous rivals are on the verge of a pricing war that could change the sector's economics, just as both companies prepare to go...

Read more

Microsoft Launches Frontier Company With 6,000 Engineers And $2.5 Billion To Fix Enterprise AI Adoption Problem

by Rounak Majumdar
July 4, 2026
0
Microsoft Launches Frontier Company With 6,000 Engineers And $2.5 Billion To Fix Enterprise AI Adoption Problem

Microsoft has made its most aggressive move yet to turn AI investment into measurable enterprise outcomes. On July 2, 2026, the company unveiled Microsoft Frontier Co., a new...

Read more
Next Post
Apple increases its self driving Fleet by 66 Vehicles

Apple in Talks to Buy Self-Driving Sensors for Apple car

Please login to join discussion

Techstory

Tech and Business News from around the world. Follow along for latest in the world of Tech, AI, Crypto, EVs, Business Personalities and more.
reach us at info@techstory.in

Advertise With Us

Reach out at - info@techstory.in

Aviator Game India 2026

BROWSE BY TAG

#Crypto #howto 2024 acquisition AI amazon Apple Artificial Intelligence bitcoin Business China cryptocurrency e-commerce electric vehicles Elon Musk Ethereum facebook funding Gaming Google India Instagram Investment ios iPhone IPO Market Markets Meta Microsoft News OpenAI samsung Social Media SpaceX startup startups tech technology Tesla TikTok trend trending twitter US

© 2025 Techstory.in

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to

© 2025 Techstory.in

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Are you sure want to unlock this post?
Unlock left : 0
Are you sure want to cancel subscription?