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Facebook unfriends Australia: information websites go darkish in content material row

Australians woke to drain information feeds on their Facebook Inc pages on Thursday after the social media huge blocked all media content material in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute with the government over paying for content material.
Australians woke to empty news feeds on their Facebook Inc pages on Thursday after the social media giant blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute with the government over paying for content.

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