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facebook�*s growing power. now on bbc news... ros atkins on facebook�*s growing power — and the real—world consequences. facebook is pervasive. of us are active facebook users. and that scale creates power, the power to turn off the news. in breaking news this morning, social media giant facebook has followed through on its threat restricting people in australia from viewing news content. the power to turn off those in power. facebook have extended their block on donald trump's accounts for at least the next two weeks untiljoe biden's inauguration, accusing the president of using the platform to incite insurrection. and the power to change how we connect, how we communicate, for better, says facebook — for worse, says this former employee. we have created tools that - are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. facebook is powerful, but is facebook too powerful? well, this is how mark zuckerberg sees its role. facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company. for most of our existence, we focused on all the good that connecting people can do. idealistic, optimistic, focused on the good. let's keep those words in

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facebook has been dogged with _ is that going to catch on? facebook has been dogged with all— is that going to catch on? facebookd with all kinds of issues in — has been dogged with all kinds of issues in recent years. and mark zuckerberg — issues in recent years. and mark zuckerberg is not been very good at deaiing _ zuckerberg is not been very good at dealing with the bad pr that has been _ dealing with the bad pr that has been created. whether it be around sharing _ been created. whether it be around sharing a _ been created. whether it be around sharing a fake news or conspiracy theories — sharing a fake news or conspiracy theories. and you have the situation now with _ theories. and you have the situation now with a _ theories. and you have the situation now with a have effectively overplayed their hand. they wanted to make _ overplayed their hand. they wanted to make this point that news media needs— to make this point that news media needs facebook within facebook needs them but _ needs facebook within facebook needs them but they have gone ahead a pandemic— them but they have gone ahead a pandemic and bl

facebook any time soon. all media companies that facebook has deemed news web sites, their facebook pes have been wiped blank. think about that. you go to a facebook page of any company that facebook says is news in australia, you won't see news or any kind of text post. for users who get most oheir information from facebook, has been a news blackout. brent: a total blackout. facebook has said the australian government's demands don't reflect how the internet works. what do they mean by that statement? >> facebook has said this legislation is absurd because thesnews companiesre using facebook's free services to publicize their content. so a lot of defders of facebook sayinthey should pay facebook to postheir content. and this may be true. a lot of newsompanies to pay facebook to post their content, but this is a 2008 way of looking how facebook works. since then, news companies have lost their ad revenue and reliant on google and facebook to promote their content. the government in australia, news compaes are paying correspondents to go out there and risk their lives and facebook isrofitting off the traffic

facebook. i have no interest in facebook. i don't care about their business model. i don't really care about facebook. my interest is not in facebook. my interest is, how do we actually find out where the balance is, what content can you have? i think it could create precedent for the other decisions on facebook and instagram but also other platforms. don't forget, we also envisage that if this is a success, other platforms are more than welcome to join and be part of the oversight that we would be able to provide down the line. apart from taking those decisions, i think we will also be able to add other features to the debate about content moderation. until now, content moderation was done by the last person on facebook, as we have seen, either mark zuckerberg or other platform directors. for the first time in history, we have to have constant moderation being done on a big social media platform. that in itself -- i would say it is historic. for the first time, we have a true basis on how to discuss these issues. if you look at our website, the public comments coming in, this is the first time where a

concerns and facebook in particular benefits from highly targeted advertising it doesn't days i mean data is facebook's bread and pasta how much is this move likely to have an impact on facebook and other small businesses that use facebook well i mean the small business argument is facebook's strongest argument saying yes this one hurt us but it will also hurt all these small companies now some of those small companies are companies that have basically built businesses around selling you merchandise that matches your interests sometimes that's great and sometimes that means getting a t. shirt that says that you are a journalist of a particular age because it knows that by thanking you so please don't think it's all to the good that facebook their argument i think there's some degree of truth to the small business argument but facebook's really looking out for facebook. at the end of the day this is a spat between 2 multibillion dollar companies and where does it actually leave consumers who have already also a lot of faith in tech companies when it comes to privacy. well it's interesting because it does give the consumer a voice in this and for the most part when it comes to

more powerful than government facebook wants to own everything its goals are to own everything does facebook want to do york times to be the newspaper of record no facebook wants facebook to be there's no editor in chief of the internet hello you could publish a blog boy if you make it look good it looks like the new york times that people don't know the difference that's been facebook's conceit ever since 2006 it is the largest news organ other than yahoo in the world it's not going away well news in brief so this is brand new in keeping an eye on it to worth bearing in mind what may or may not be happening in georgia thousands of people take in the streets the georgian capital tbilisi to oppose the arrest of an opposition leader he's accused of inciting violence and protests by can 29 take your position says the arrest is politically motivated the calling for new parliamentary elections but quite a turn out there from that little snapshot japan dealing with fires big one firefighters even military helicopters and to be brought in to put out a huge mountain fire threatening nearby residents more than $200.00 households have been asked to leave the area

huge community impact $17000000.00 australians visit facebook every month it's even being called an assault on democracy. facebook was wrong. facebook sections were unnecessary that way heavy handed and they will damage its reputation here in australia frydenberg said facebook gave no warning of the new shutdown. wants to table a law that would require online giants to negotiate payment for news outlets content or have fees set for them some experts have their doubts about the law and say it needs to be reevaluated the story is a bit more complicated than just saying that's up from scott of content from let's and that and if it for me it's kind of a mucho benefit so then you probably would also when you toss whether. you. need to pay facebook and google. that is for the will then to their pages. google initially also refused to pay for news content and threatened to pull all services from australia then in a surprise move the internet giant struck deals with australian media firms such as channel 9 rupert murdoch's news corp and 7 west media. australian social media users will be hoping that facebook has a similar change of heart. j

once they joined facebook, there is a lot of tension between instagram and facebook, the promise of independent that facebook gives instagram doesn't lost. the second they joined facebook they're told by facebook's growth team, their team famous for figuring out how they can get us more and more addicted to facebook, they're developed that they can be helped only if an internal study determines that instagram is not a threat to facebook, and the founders are really -- they attempt to maintain their independence and their brand and their craft as zuckerberg promised but doesn't work out they way and in 2016, when they really accelerate their growth by copying snapchat stories and making a lot of changes to the instagram app, zuckerberg is in the throes of a crisis around the presidential election and the fallout of people understanding that facebook can manipulate, that facebook gathers maybe a lot more data than we want them to and people are starting to be very critical of facebook at a time that instagram is really thriving. and he starts to think, what if the reason that facebook is struggling is because

this point that news media needs_ to make this point that news media needs facebook within facebook needs them but _ needs facebook within facebook needs them but they have gone ahead a pandemic— them but they have gone ahead a pandemic and blocked vital information to mental health services _ information to mental health services. in australia they have blocked — services. in australia they have blocked info on bushfires and wider health— blocked info on bushfires and wider health services. it really is not a good _ health services. it really is not a good look. — health services. it really is not a good look, and i've been reading these _ good look, and i've been reading these articles all of them talk about— these articles all of them talk about facebook as a bully. really throwing — about facebook as a bully. really throwing their weight around, acting like a _ throwing their weight around, acting like a monopolistic power. improving the point, _ like a monopolistic power. improving the point, really, that facebook does _ the point, really, that facebook does need to have more regulation. interesting — does ne

facebook still arguing this out, and the outcome will have global implications. scott morrison said that facebook's action was indefensible. but was it? isn't facebookht when they say they help news organizations get new subscribers and help drive revenue? >> yes, facebook is right when it says that. certainly, the discoverability of news on facebook is really important to a range of his organizations, not least of all, small news organizations that do not have the same ability to pay for distribution. we have actually seen a reaction by community broadcasting and first nations media in australia to this decision, because it is really negatively impacting their ability to be seen on the platform and reach their audiences. we have seen an impact throughout the region as australia is a really important new source for other countries in the region that have much smaller news industries. we are seeing a pretty big ripple effect. anchor: what are your thoughts about this? do you think facebook's action was indefensible? >> i think it was reckless, indefensible, and highly demonstrative of a failed pr campaign, despite the fact that public relations in th

had a huge community impact $17000000.00 australians visit facebook every month it's called an assault on democracy. facebook was wrong. facebook sections were unnecessary that way heavy handed and they will damage its reputation here in australia frydenberg said facebook gave no warning of the new shutdown. kamber wants to table a law that would require online giants to negotiate payment for news outlets content or have fees set for them some experts have their doubts about the law and say it needs to be reevaluated the story is a bit more complicated than just saying that's our platforms kind of steal the content from and they benefit from it it's going to them will child benefit so then you probably would also need to ask whether. you. need to pay a group of traffic that is fall through them to their pages. google initially also refused to pay for news content and threatened to pull all services from australia then in a surprise move the internet giant struck deals with australian media firms such as channel mine rupert murdoch's news corp and 7 west media. australian social media users will be hoping that facebook has a sim

more social value so what is facebook up to down under this morning facebook blocked all news leaks for users in australia no viewing no sharing tonight hash tag delete facebook is trending again australia's prime minister has a reminder for big tech you may be changing the world but that doesn't mean you're running the world to i'm bored golf in berlin this is the day. the season assault on a stalker is nice and it is a assault on people's freedom facebook was wrong facebook sections were unnecessary that way and if you're doing business in a strat it needs to comply with the laws we just want the rules in the digital world to be the sign that exists in the real world and there are many eyes across the world that a focused on what a stranger is doing right now we started a fight to stop the staff and perhaps it's time to put people on the profit. also coming up the state of texas in a deep freeze the power grid has collapsed it is so severe that some people are faced with either freezing to death or burning their possessions to stay warm. every source of power that the state of texas has has been compromised and if out of the house it's almost like minus 3 a

facebook has not. >> facebook was wrong. facebook's actions were unnecessary. they were heavy-handed and they will damage its reputation here in australia. reporter: facebook announced the move on its blog, saying australia misunderstands the relationship between itself and publishers. it says publishers willingly choose to post news on facebook's -- on facebook to grow their audience and increase advertising revenue. it estimates it generates more than 5 billion free referrals with an estimated $350 million last year. the government and facebook ceo, mark zuckerberg, talked again on thursday. >> the rentable is very clear. google and facebook is important to the s trillion economy and we want them to continue operating here. we have also made it clear that if you do busi [ video cassetteattlg ] we'do to the partiesand i'd tics yoknow, i ew abouther love and . whwere fliing wither and-- u know, d watch-i'd watc her li from unr tablesnd i'd sten in om my beand--

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made in journalism it's all very well to say journalism benefits more from facebook than facebook does from journalism but facebook and other tech giants have really up ended the information ecosystem with really devastating effects for democracy in parts of the world as well as news organizations and so there has to be a recess and this it's not just about economics in the sense of what is the value of x. compared to y. there's a moral and ethical responsibility to support the public interest journalism that has collapsed partly as a result of google and facebook as 2 companies sucking up 80 percent of digital advertising in a strength i just i'm going to come in there too i'm going to come to court in a 2nd but i just want to come back on that but the problem with this law as you've acknowledged is that there's this concentrated kind of news scene in australia with what is it news corp fairfax and 7 network they stand to benefit from this but while the smaller set ups the kind of the town the small town publishes if you like they'll just go to the wall when they. not necessarily because i mean google for example

more social value so what is facebook up to down under this morning facebook blocked all news leaks for users in australia no viewing no sharing tonight hash tag delete facebook is trending again australia's prime minister has a reminder for big tech you may be changing the world but that doesn't mean you're running the world to go off in berlin this is the day. this is an assault on a stronger nice and it isn't assault on people's freedom facebook was wrong facebook sections were unnecessary that way and if you're doing business in a strat you need to comply with the laws we just want the rules of the digital world to be the sign that exists in the real world and there are many eyes across the world that a focused on what a stranger is doing right now we started a fight to stop this to happen and perhaps it's time to put people on the problem. also coming up the state of texas in a deep freeze the power grid has collapsed it is so severe that some people are faced with either freezing to death or burning their possessions to stay warm. every source of power that the state of texas has has been compromised and if out of the house it's almost like minus throug

more social value so what is facebook up to down under this morning facebook blocked all news leaks for users in australia no viewing no sharing tonight hash tag delete facebook is trending again australia's prime minister has a reminder for big tech you may be changing the world but that doesn't mean you're running the world to go off in berlin this is the day. this is an assault on a stronger nice and it isn't assault on people's freedom facebook was wrong facebook sections were unnecessary that way and if you're doing business in australia you need to comply with the was we just want the rules of the digital world to be the sign that exists in the real world and there are many eyes across the world that are focused on what a stranger is doing right now we started a place to stop these details and perhaps it's time to put paper on the problem. also coming up the state of texas in a deep freeze the power grid has collapsed it is so severe that some people are faced with either freezing to death or burning their possessions to stay warm. every source of power that the state of texas has has been compromised and if out of the house it's almost like. minus thro

facebook relies on if all the news organizations all the same sort of arrangement or demanded the same terms from facebook they'd be without any content all the same goes for users users are providing content for free to 1st facebook which facebook sells that's around if users desisted from posting statuses of any sort or commenting on other people's statuses than facebook would have any content around which to so anything so they really have no choice i think they're in a difficult situation in which they're looking at the eradication of good news rooms carry a similar point you who stands to lose the most in all this facebook its users are the australian government. well i think the dreaded d. word of democracy was mentioned earlier and i vote yes for that word we have seen a whole cloth disruption of paid you know professional journalists guys that spent 30 years cutting their teeth and there are a lot of jobs because who's going to pay $80.00 grand plus benefits to write a story when you can get to me on his you know non-ferrous by no real credentials in journalism typing out something and make more money on those clicks so the question is for democracy is what is the threshold where people deserve to have rea

is probably keeping track of what you're doing when you're not on facebook and when you're not even one into facebook facebook is able to get data on what you're up to when you're using all kinds of apps when you're browsing on websites that have no official connection to face i think that would surprise a lot of people apple plans a major privacy change in the coming months we are. artists yes you. are about the house. instead of poking around in your phone settings to opt out of data sharing apple will now require apps to give users a plain choice when they open an app is forced to prompt them to say hey do you want to let us track you or not and that's expected to make a big difference because most people don't actually want their behavior to be tracked and shared between various apps and website facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says apple doesn't really care about privacy it cares about profits apple has every incentive to use their dominant platform position to interfere with how our apps and other apps work zuckerberg told investors in january apple may say they're doing this to help people but the moves

companies but facebook facebook decided it's not going to do that so instead this morning australians wake up and what they find is that all new sites have been removed from the all facebook in australia there is no journalism there is no new sites at all but then basically gone a step further they've actually removed a lot of government agencies as well and that includes things like for instance. the bureau of meteorology was taken down state health departments were taken down emergency service pages were all taken down now throughout the day facebook started to restore some of that but essentially what they did was they came in and said if you're a government agency you don't get to be on facebook because you're making us pay for journalism that's on our site so that's essentially what happened they started to roll it back but i got to tell you scotty it feels like facebook with way too far with this and what's going to wind up happening is instead of just having to deal with this new law regarding paying for journalism they're probably going to get hit with a whole other set of fines and possibly even pushed out of the country altogether when that's the thing that i me

facebook is going about this is that. it certainly is well facebook don't mention is that over the last few years facebook so heavily restricted the ability of small businesses to be able to access consumers without paying facebook so we've seen pages the year you have found pages that relate to businesses or to your local shops or artists that you might like when they just post on the battle my facebook it is now very difficult for that post to be seen what's called organically by users in the same way that you might see a friends post instead there's increasing need for them to pay to get even the people who subscribe to them to be able to see those posts so facebook of dumb extremely really hard lot of damage to small businesses over recent years and selling it in the sense of oh well they can't you know they can't reach anybody will these these companies can't reach the people who actually actively subscribe to them or have forms without having facebook anymore so i think that's a part of the merit if that's that's been really missed out by facebook in their own campaigns rebecca a lot of the analysis of what's happening b

communication information said that they are shutting down facebook because they say there's fake news there's false information being spread on facebook facebook's confirmed that that's happened telecommunications companies that operate in miramar have also said that they have been told by the government to stop allowing people to go into facebook now when you look at the country and you look at you know ok facebook why is it that important of a platform for them $53000000.00 people in myanmar about half of them use facebook that is to communicate with people within the country but also outside the country and that along with that go with the messaging platforms apps that are come under the facebook banner so that's a lot of communication that's being cut because they have shut down the page well when say the police filed criminal charges against deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi coup leaders the keys owning handheld radios that were illegally imported the u.n. is calling for her release saying the arrest is undermining democracy the rule of law. the global alliance to distribute coronavirus vaccine to poorer nations known as the covert s

facebook's actions. so facebook because i just put out the big try to prove a point by blocking all news content on facebook in australia but in doing so they also wiped out a lot of web sites that were on facebook accidentally so they don't get emergency services and object health departments and i think if they were trying to make a political point about the importance of news on facebook that i think they lost the p.r. battle before he began because in accidentally deleting a whole lot of other things that how is the nature of this band really set a strategy is uses on the wrong foot i think that they actually angry with facebook than they would have been before they spend again tell us more about these other outlets that facebook has blocked because as you say you're talking about access to public information also health information charity information all sorts of things why are they blocking that while facebook claims that it was an accident so when they knocked at the news ban they clearly used an outrigger more tool simply to wire the set up but if that was what they did so they for example where i

facebook and on former president trump. it's created to evaluate facebook's content discussion and talk about cases about the scandal of the implications of facebook fan on the former president. this is ant hour. >> about the oversight board, the newly established independent body is to decide whether facebook and instagram f shall allow or remove specific content . at the moment, 20 experts and former policy makers around the world as i understand it will get up to 40 by the time it is fully staffed up . and's recommendations are in facebook decision of what violate the law operated an issue the recommendations of the company's content policies are needed cases for review are damning by a slate of five members. it after a long list of the board is picked up the pace. and it has rendered its first judgment on this initial on january 28th . and on january 31st more, significantly facebook referred one of his most controversial decisions for review. and to the board. in themo suspension of former president donald trump's account when for a definite. when it complies with the companies expression of human rights. in less than 90 days, the boards resp

is that, it really does look like — facebook is that, it really does look like facebook thinks it's boss and that— look like facebookhich it has been framed is that facebook is not bigger than democracy— is that facebook is not bigger than democracy and a democratically elected — democracy and a democratically elected government that is putting forward _ elected government that is putting forward a — elected government that is putting forward a policy to address essentially the share of who is between — essentially the share of who is between the media news companies and facebook— between the media news companies and facebook and google and others, and who is— facebook and google and others, and who is getting what share of advertising money. and so it's a really. _ advertising money. and so it's a really. it's— advertising money. and so it's a really, it's really like facebook is overplayed their hand here. i think they wanted to show look, this is what _ they wanted to show look, this is what it— they wanted to show look, this is what it would be like without us and you really— what it would be like without us and

facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some look you can understand facebook's desire not to give in and start paying for news stories like google did once the box opens there's $200.00 other countries surely saying we want some to facebook of what you do to their shareholders right if we start saying all right facebook will have to pay to feature news articles and news links what's stopping other forms of content from doing the same this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize and actually a i think more equitable if i can use that word solution to this would be to start talking about ways to break up the monopoly that facebook does have on advertising and also on user data basically the biggest problem with facebook is that they're utterly controlling that narrative and they're completely shutting out news that doesn't obey the narrative miss and this goes for almost. every issue down the line that's of the importance today let's remember back in around 2007 i happen to be one of those lucky ones who interviewed this guy who started facebook he was a nobody was still on my space my space everywhere and he said that he wanted to create an ecosystem similar to a

by facebook nobody suggesting this however or which you know facebook by no deliberately be varying certain adverts certain campaigns in order to suit its own political agenda we know now that facebook is a political player and he could be it could certainly be that one day facebook will decide to promote an agenda that is promoting chaos there are plenty of political groups and ideologies that thrive on chaos. did the problem of course now for facebook is that once facebook has declared itself is a political player once facebook is said it it has got people who are varying certain political ads were very set of political opinions and views we are always going to look at facebook in very very suspicious ari's. at the same time now yeah i mean people appreciate that facebook has had to play to some extent that on its platform but when you think an example like this it really shows the problems that they exist when you try to play something as far as i. of course the question again is is facebook balanced facebook transparent with its policing efforts do we know what criteria facebook applies to 2 tweets. varying of filtering process. all these things might be the case it is about tim

huge community impact $17000000.00 australians visit facebook every month it's even being called an assault on democracy. facebook was wrong. facebook. sections were unnecessary they weigh heavy handed and they will damage it's reputation here in australia frydenberg said facebook gave no warning of the new shutdown. camber wants to table a law that would require online giants to negotiate payment for news outlets content or have fees set for them some experts have their doubts about the law and say it needs to be reevaluated the story is a bit more complicated than just saying that's our platforms kind of steal the content from and they benefit from it it's kind of a mucho benefit so then you probably would also need to ask whether. news outlets will need to pay facebook and google. has fought for will then to their pages google initially also refused to pay for news content and threatened to pull all services from australia then in a surprise move the internet giant struck deals with australian media firms such as channel 9 rupert murdoch's news corp and 7 west media. australian social media users will be hoping that facebook has

facebook- significant. interesting thatl google and facebook having taken — google and facebook having taken a _ google and — taken a united front on this issue have now diverged significantly. google has decided it is in its long—term interest_ decided it is in its long—term interest in_ decided it is in its long—term interest in operating in australia to develop partnerships with the leading news publishers. facebook have decided — news publishers. facebook have decided to take a confrontational attitude which i believe will backfire on them _ i believe will backfire on them i_ i believe will backfire on them. i think the government has flagged on several occasions that it is not going to withdraw the legislation under— to withdraw the legislation under threat and i think at a time — under threat and i think at a time when potentially a lot of people — time when potentially a lot of people are thinking, why am i on facebook? the proposition that— on facebook? the proposition that they— on facebook? the proposition that they will not carry professionally produced australian news would have to be questione

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facebook has read friended astray. and astray in news will be restored to the facebook platform and facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with a strain news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content of a more on this let's cross over to australia for more details from journalist michelle harrison the she joins me from sydney rochelle can you tell us more about the deal that was reached to restore news content to australian facebook feeds. well facebook has turned the news tap back on reversing the ban out of the australian government agreed to make amendments to its proposed contentious media bargaining war that would fulfill tech giants to pay for news at crucial amendments is that at the code may not apply to google in facebook if they can show that they signed and not deals with news outlets before the college becomes law and the government will consider existing commercial agreements out before the take our names who designated under because of the deals that google for example cut recently with some of the country's biggest media companies will work in its favor so b

information is said that they are shutting down facebook because they say there's fake news there's false information being spread on facebook facebook's confirm that that's happened telecommunications companies that operate in myanmar have also said that they have been told by the government to stop allowing people to go into facebook and that when you look at the country and you look at you know ok facebook why is it that important of a platform for them $53000000.00 people in myanmar about half of them use facebook that is to communicate with people within the country but also outside the country and that along with that go with the messaging platforms apps that are come under the facebook banner so that's a lot of communication that's being cut because they have shut down the page. on wednesday the police filed criminal charges against deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi clearly is accused of owning handheld radios that were illegally imported the u.n. is calling for her release saying the arrest is undermining democracy on the rule of law. the global alliance to distribute coronavirus vaccines the poor nations known as the ko

facebook to pay news publishers or be forced into arbitration australia's treasurer says they have decided to back off of some of those proposals but talks are expected to continue well facebook has reached for ended a strike and destroy you news will be restored to the facebook platform and facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with the strain news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content. in a statement facebook said quote after further discussions we are satisfied that the australian government has agreed to a number of changes and guarantees that address our core concerns about allowing commercial deals that recognize the value our pop for improvised a publisher is relative to the value we received from them so joining me now to break this down the coast and investigative journalist ben swan ok so grand what do we know about this new agreement between facebook and the australian government here. yeah sounds like everything kind of points toward facebook got their way centrally facebook for about a week shut down all news on its platform and i'll show you said we're not going to have news because the government there had said for not just facebook but for all big tech companies that they would have to pay