Banning news links just days before Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout? Facebook, that’s just dangerous
In less than a week, Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine roll out will begin. Yesterday, Facebook shut off news. In this crossposting from The Conversation, Maryke Steffens unpacks why the latter could damage the former.
Facebook’s decision to ban media organisations from posting links to news articles on the social media giant’s platform comes less than a week before Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout begins. The ban also prevented many health organisations, government health departments and other organisations from posting links (some, but not all, have now been restored).
The combined effect of this could be incredibly damaging.
