I loathe Facebook. I fail to see them as the bad guy in this.<p>The Australian government made a policy to prop up a specific powerful media organization with wealthy donors who have falling readers and revenue.<p>Facebook likely took the easiest way out to remain legal and abide by Australian law.<p>Any distress with content not showing should be put towards the AU government after all it's a consequence and collateral damage of their policy.<p>I imagine over the coming weeks certain things will get restored as algorithms etc get tweaked for the edgecases.
..."Facebook didn’t just shut down Australian news sites, it shut down government agency pages: Hospitals, Fire & Rescue, Bureau of Meteorology, just hours after Zuckerberg spoke to our Govt & without warning. If a foreign government did this(e.g China), it would be called terrorism."