Canberra — Facebook says it will restore Australian news pages after negotiating changes with the government to a proposed law that forces tech giants to pay for media content displayed on their platforms.

Australia and the social media group have been locked in a standoff after the government introduced legislation that challenged Facebook and Alphabet’s Google’s dominance in the news content market...

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