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Global leaders will be asked to back Australia in a fight with Facebook over its market power after the social media giant silenced news, health and emergency services in a bid to halt a federal law.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison raised the shock tactic with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Thursday night in the first step of a plan to mobilise global support to stop Facebook “bullying” elected governments.
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Read more: ‘We will not be intimidated’: Australian PM takes Facebook fight to India and the world
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/300234197/we-will-not-be-intimidated-australian-pm-takes-facebook-fight-to-india-and-the-world
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Speaking with the UK based Conservative Friends of the Commonwealth, New Zealand National Party leader, Judith Collins MP, and Chair of the New Zealand Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence Committee, Simon O'Connor MP, discuss CANZUK and the benefits of reciprocal migration and free trade with Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.
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Read more: New Zealand Members Of Parliament Discuss Future Of CANZUK
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The ACT Party is accusing the Government of failing to keep New Zealanders safe, citing the number of gang members with gun licences increasing under its watch.
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Read more: ACT questions why more gang members getting firearms licences
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/02/act-questions-why-more-gang-members-getting-firearms-licences.html
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Facebook faced a worldwide backlash from publishers and politicians on Thursday after blocking news feeds in Australia in a surprise escalation of a dispute with the government over a law to require it to share revenue from news.
Facebook wiped out pages from Australian state governments and charities as well as from domestic and international news organisations, three days before the launch of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination programme.
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Read more: Facebook faces worldwide backlash after blocking news feeds in Australia
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Nine days shy of a year since the country's first confirmed case, the first COVID-19 vaccine in New Zealand will be given on Friday.
The first people immunised will not be border workers or their families but vaccinators - the people with the important job of administering the shots.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/02/first-jab-of-pfizer-vaccine-to-be-administered-to-vaccinators-ahead-of-border-workers-rollout.html
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Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi says New Zealand "wouldn't be impressed" if Facebook banned Kiwis from accessing news on its platform the way it has in Australia.
"They haven't threatened anything like that here but we wouldn't be impressed and I don't think New Zealanders signed up to Facebook would be impressed if that was their behaviour here in New Zealand," Faafoi said on Thursday.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/02/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-broadcasting-minister-kris-faafoi-weigh-in-on-facebook-s-australian-news-ban.html
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Australians are outraged after Facebook blocked important public service pages as part of its unprecedented news ban from the platform.
The social media giant on Thursday blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute with the Government about paying for content.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/02/facebook-blocks-australian-domestic-violence-pages-weather-service-as-part-of-news-content-ban.html
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Facebook will ban Australian news sites from its platform in an unprecedented move to avoid paying for local content.
In a direct response to the government's proposed media bargaining code, the social media giant announced it will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing both Australian and international news on the platform.
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Read more: AUSTRALIA Facebook bans Australian news content in response to new media bargaining law
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