Why has Facebook blocked news in Australia and what does it for the rest of the world? ((Pre./ To mean))

Sky News into why this has happened and why it for the rest of the world. ((Pre./ To look)) ((Pre./ To matter))

Australians up on Thursday to discover they could not access news on their Facebook accounts and people around the world not post or share links from Australian publications. ((Pas-/ To wake)) ((Pas./ Can))

Commercial and government communication pages, community support groups, charities and news from emergency services also inaccessible. ((Pas./ To be))

The US-based social media giant the move after the Australian House of Representatives approved a law to compel internet companies to pay news organisations. ((Pas./ To make))

Facebook the law, which needs to be passed by the Senate, "fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between our platform and publishers who it". ((Pas./ To say)) ((Pre./ To use))

Powerful tech companies the law could set an expensive precedent for other countries as governments try to catch up with the fast-changing digital world. ((Pre./ To fear))

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison his Facebook page to react, saying: "Facebook's actions to unfriend Australia today, cutting off essential information services on health and emergency services, as arrogant as they were disappointing." ((Pas./ To use)) ((Pas./ To be))

Facebook for 23% of Australian online advertising revenue while Google accounts for 53%, according to the government's treasurer, Josh Frydenberg. ((Pre./ To account))

The Australian government to redress that balance in the hope more money can go to a news industry that is seeing revenue shrink and, in some cases, being forced to cut coverage. ((Pre./ To want))

Canberra's competition regulator to negotiate a voluntary payment plan with Google but this . ((Pas./ To try)) ((Pas./ To fail))

The new proposal was then forward which would create a committee to make binding decisions on the price of news reports to help give publishers more negotiating leverage with the internet giants. ((Pas./ To bring))

Has Google agreed to the plan?

The internet tech giant had threatened to retaliate but deals in Australia with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and Seven West Media, while the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Nine Entertainment in negotiations. ((Pas./ To announce)) ((Pre./ To be))

No financial details were but this means news companies now a new revenue stream. ((Pas./ To release)) ((Pre./ To have))

News Corp, which Sky News in Australia - separate from Sky News UK - said it would receive "significant payments" from Google under a three-year agreement which also its non-Australian publications such as the New York Post, and the Times and the Sun in the UK. ((Pre./ To own)) ((Pre./ To cover))

Google's deal translate to more coverage for readers, viewers and listeners?

That unclear.

Australia's journalists' union is calling on media companies to make sure online revenue into newsgathering "not the boardroom". ((Pre./ To do)) ((Pre./ To remain)) ((Pre./ To go))

In France, Google had to negotiate with publishers after a court last year an order saying agreements to pay required by a 2019 European Union copyright directive. ((Pas./ To uphold)) ((Pas./ To be))

France is the first government to enforce the rules, but the decision other countries in the 27-nation bloc will enforce the same requirements. ((Pre./ To suggest))

Facebook a Facebook News tab in the UK after completing deals with many of the country's major news providers, including Sky News, the Financial Times, and The Guardian. ((Pas./ To launch))

Google down its news website in Spain after a 2014 law required it to pay publishers. ((Pas./ To shut))