Small publishers welcome Facebook’s news reversal, with questions

February 24, 2021 1:40

Less than a week after Australian users woke up to find that news content had been removed from their Facebook news feeds, Facebook has announced it will reinstate news.

Small publishers, community organisations and individual news presenters were all impacted by the decision by Facebook, and are pleased to see that the government and Facebook have come to an understanding on the News Media Bargaining Code that prompted the social giant to revert.

Urban List founder and CEO Susannah George was one of the many independent publishers caught in the cross fire by the Facebook vs Australian Government stoush.

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Olivia Kruimel

Olivia Kruimel was the managing editor at Mumbrella. She has more than 15 years of experience in journalism, communications and marketing. Her journalism career began at Fairfax Media (now part of Nine) and includes various B2B publications such as B&T, Travel Today and ALB. As a marketer Olivia has worked for Standard Chartered and various global law firms.