Many of you have probably heard about the ongoing battle between Facebook and media corporations in Australia. A proposed law known as the News Media Bargaining Code requires large internet companies such as Facebook and Google to subsidise local news media companies for sharing links to their content. After threatening to entirely pull out from the Australian market, Google finally reached an agreement while Facebook took a completely different route. Facebook has decided to start blocking people from sharing any links to Australian media. This blocking mechanism turned out to be very flawed and it’s actually blocking not only links to news content, but also blog articles hosted on private blogs, non-profit organisations’ websites and even critical information channels such as bushfire alerts.