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One of these things is not like the others: why Facebook is beyond our control

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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What’s the difference between Google and Facebook?

One difference is that last week Google agreed to pay Australian news outlets for their content in the face of a threat of government action to force it to.

Facebook did not, temporarily removing Australian news sources from its feeds, a decision it only reversed after...

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