https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-australia/facebook-blocks-news-content-in-australia-as-it-blasts-proposed-law-idUSKBN2AH2K1 >Facebook Inc will block news content from being read and shared in its news feed in Australia, drawing a line in the sand against a proposed Australian law that would require it and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay the country's news publishers for content.