Facebook over-enforced Australia news ban, admits Nick Clegg

Nick Clegg, right, with Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, last year. Clegg says making Facebook pay for news content was ‘like forcing carmakers to fund radio stations because people might listen to them in the car — and letting the stations set the price.’ Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Nick Clegg, right, with Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, last year. Clegg says making Facebook pay for news content was ‘like forcing carmakers to fund radio stations because people might listen to them in the car — and letting the stations set the price.’ Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

source https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/24/facebook-over-enforced-australia-news-ban-admits-nick-clegg