LONDON/SYDNEY/SAN FRANCISCO (Financial Times) -- Facebook has defied Australia's push to make Big Tech pay for news by banning the sharing of content on its platform in the country, the most far-reaching restrictions it has ever placed on publishers in any part of the world.
The extreme step to remove Australian news came as Google separately struck a global deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, defusing a long-running dispute between the two companies.
