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The Australian government has been advised by Facebook that „it intends to restore Australian news pages in the coming days“.
Facebook will restore news pages in Australia in coming days after the government has agreed to amend the News Media Bargaining Code, the media reported on Tuesday. „We will restore news on Facebook in Australia in the next few days,“ Campbell Brown, vice president of global news partnerships at Facebook, said in a statement late Monday. According to ABC News, the government has been advised by Facebook that „it intends to restore Australian news pages in the coming days“. „As a result of further discussion, the Australian Government has agreed to a number of changes and guarantees that address key concerns about allowing commerce to recognise the value that the Platform provides to publishers compared to the value it receives from publishers.

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