The famous social network Facebook announced today, Tuesday, its intention to resume broadcasting pages with news content in Australia, after the Australian government confirmed its intention to amend the new rules governing the broadcasting of social networks and Internet companies of news content.
The rules oblige these networks and companies to pay a financial fee to the media when publishing their news content.
Treasury Secretary Josh Friedenberg and Paul Fletcher, Communications Minister, in the Australian government said in a statement that the government had received notification from Facebook of its intention to resume broadcasting news pages in the country in the coming days.
The two ministers´ joint statement added that the government will "make more amendments" to the new "Media Posting Blog" law to provide more clarity for digital platforms and media institutions on how the platforms will pay for the media content that these platforms publish.
Last week, Facebook banned news content from being posted on user pages in Australia due to the new law.
"We are pleased to have reached an agreement with the Australian government," Facebook said in a statement.
She added, "We are satisfied that the Australian government has approved a number of changes and guarantees" to address the company´s concerns about the new law.
"As a result of these changes, we can now work to pump more investments in the interest of the public press and to re-broadcast news content to Australians in the coming days," the network said.
