How Facebook Keyser Söze’d the Australian Government’s News Media Bargaining Code
https://www.niemanlab.orgAustralia’s play can be simplified to: We have something you find incredibly valuable, and unless you give us what we want, we can destroy it.
To which Facebook, by unilaterally banning Australian news stories, responded: You have a really messed up idea of who finds what valuable here. Here, watch me shoot the hostages and show how illusory your “leverage” really is.
