Facebook's Australian news ban also blocked links to weather, government services, poetry, and Facebook itself

Australians woke up on Thursday morning to find their news feeds, post history, and favourite news outlets' pages scrubbed of all links to ... well, news. Facebook followed through on its threat to ban the sharing of news links by and to Australian users, as the country's government moves closer to forcing big tech companies to pay to link media outlets' content. The proposed news media bargaining code would see tech giants like Google and Facebook having to pay media companies for content that ...