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On Thursday, millions of Australians woke up to find a drastically different version of Facebook - one devoid of any news.
Overnight, Facebook banned Australian users from sharing or viewing news content on the platform - in response to a proposed law that would make tech giants pay for such content.
Facebook has, in just a matter of years, established itself as the place where many get their news. And the platform's outsized influence on how some newsrooms make editorial and hiring decisions has led to it being described as "the absent editor in the room".
So how exactly did it cement its place one of the world's biggest sources of news?
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