‘Delete the app’: Former Facebook CEO urges users to delete Facebook app over Australian news ban dailymail.co.uk

Facebook former CEO has slammed Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘sad’ decision to ban Aussies from accessing local and international news articles on Facebook. The former CEO is calling on everyone to delete the app out of protest. He said Mark Zuckerberg is all about ‘the money and the power’. #DeleteFacebook is currently trending on Twitter.

Facebook infuriated Australians after banning them from reading and sharing local news in response to a world-first law to make tech giants pay media companies for the content they use.

Australians went to their Facebook news accounts on Thursday but received a message saying ‘no posts’ were available. Even international news was hidden.

Stephen Scheeler, former Facebook Australia and New Zealand chief executive officer, said Facebook’s controversial move ‘looks and feels ugly’ and blasted CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s motivations.

‘It shouldn’t have happened. But unfortunately it did. But there’s no good answers. If you’re Rio Tinto and you blow up an Aboriginal sacred site, there are consequences, people lose their jobs. But at Facebook nobody ever loses their jobs,’ he told The Australian.

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‘I’m a proud ex-Facebooker, but over the years I get more and more exasperated. For Facebook and Mark it’s too much about the money, and the power, and not about the good.

‘Imagine if a Chinese company for example had done this, we would be up in arms. All Australians should be quite alarmed by this.’

Scheeler, who resigned from Facebook in 2017, encouraged Australians to delete the app to send a stern message to the company.

Just to let you know that Instagram, whatsapp and Facebook are the same thing. #DeleteFacebook pic.twitter.com/ToDcEAJ3SR

— David Osorio (@davidosoriodos) February 18, 2021

Karratha KAW Engineering founder and director Jared Fitzclarence launched a scathing attack on Facebook, saying he will pull all paid advertising on the platform for his multiple WA businesses.

“As an owner of multiple businesses, and actively involved with numerous groups and organisations with a history advertising by way of Facebook, I am making a commitment to immediately cease all paid advertising,” he shared this morning.

“To all Australian entrepreneurs, I challenge you to do the same for your advertising budgets.”

Fitzclarence also said he would “refrain from clicking on any paid advertisements within the Facebook interface until such times as Australian news content is fully restored to their platform and negotiates fair compensation for news content creators”.

See some Twitter posts below

Honestly, we need new social media platform(s) so we could move on and #DeleteFacebook.

— Jeataxy (@Jeataxy1) February 18, 2021

Australian Community Media asks us to #DeleteFacebook following its decision to remove news from its platform.

'Facebook's action will take what is already a breeding ground for untruths and turn it into a festering swamp of disinformation.'https://t.co/ZIl4sotCE8 pic.twitter.com/8txSWSoBC6

— Tanya Selak (@GongGasGirl) February 18, 2021

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