Why Facebook banning news days before Australia’s coronavirus vaccine roll-out is dangerous

Facebook’s decision to ban media organisations from posting links to news articles on the social media giant’s platform comes less than a week before Australia’s Covid-19 vaccine roll-out begins. The ban also prevented many health organisations, government health departments and other organisations from posting links (some, but not all, have now been restored).The combined effect of this could be incredibly damaging.My research is on how poor-quality information and misinformation in online…

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