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How will Meta’s refusal to pay for news affect Australian journalism – and our democracy?

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Facebook's parent company Meta has announced it will stop paying for Australian news content. Media freedom laws are meaningless if news companies can't afford to hire experienced journalists to run expensive investigations. A key part of any successful democracy is a free media, capable of interrogating the powerful and holding governments to account.

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How will Meta’s refusal to pay for news affect Australian journalism – and our democracy?

When we speak of media freedom, we generally mean it in terms of freedom from unnecessary legal restrictions, so journalists and their sources are not threatened with prosecution for exposing the misdeeds of governments. But yesterday’s announcement by Meta (Facebook’s parent company) that it will stop paying for Australian news content poses a different kind of threat to media freedom. The most progressive media freedom laws in the world are…

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