Facebook v Australia - a podcast by ABC Radio

Facebook has adopted a drastic bargaining position in its fight with Australia, blocking news from its platform rather than agreeing to a plan to pay for local journalism.

Community groups, state health departments and even the Bureau of Meteorology have been caught out by the ban too, which came in overnight yesterday without warning.

So is this just a negotiating tactic from Facebook?

Or could it be forever?

Today on The Signal, we ask who will blink first in the showdown over the Government's media bargaining code.



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Professor Axel Bruns, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

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