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In October, The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster investigation of Facebook's troubling internal practices, based in large part on documents and files surfaced by employee whistleblower Frances Haugen.
On Thursday, yet another bombshell, courtesy of a Facebook whistleblower, surfaced in the WSJ. The report detailed the social media giant's beyond-ruthless efforts to maintain the internet status quo as first-of-its-kind legislation in Australia threatened to fundamentally reshape the platform's relationship with news publishers.
As the Australian Parliament prepared to vote on the law -- which would require tech giants like Google and Facebook to negotiate contracts with news outlets for their content to appear on their platforms -- Facebook unsurprisingly sought to sway the process for a more favorable outcome. But the tech giant didn't just rely on tried-and-true lobbying strategies. Instead, Facebook threw its entire weight behind a massive punch and blacked out all news content in the country. You want us to pay for news? How about no news at all?
What's more, it wasn't just links and pages belonging to The Sydney Morning Herald or...
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