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  News Corp said on Monday it had reached a three-year agreement to provide Facebook Inc users access to news in Australia. (Reuters) – News Corp said on Monday it had reached a three-year agreement to provide  Facebook  Inc users access to news in Australia. Last month, Australia’s parliament passed a law that requires Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc to pay media companies for content on their platforms, after robust negotiations in which Facebook blocked all news content in the 13th-largest economy. The agreement announced on Monday involves News Corp’s The Australian national newspaper, and metropolitan papers such as The Daily Telegraph in New South Wales. Sky News Australia has also reached a new agreement with Facebook, News Corp said. The three-year deal follows an agreement reached in October, 2019 in which News Corp publications in the United States receive payments in exchange for access to additional stories it would provide for Facebook News.

  The social network said in a statement late on Monday that the move is taken after consultations with leading health organisations, including the WHO Facebook has announced to expand its efforts to remove false claims on its own platform and Instagram about Covid-19 and its vaccines. The expanded list of false Covid-19 and vaccine-related claims that will be removed include: Covid-19 is man-made; vaccines are not effective at preventing the disease they were created to protect against; it’s safer to get a disease than to get its vaccine and vaccines are dangerous, toxic, or cause autism, among others. The social network said in a statement late on Monday that the move is taken after consultations with leading health organisations, including the WHO. Starting this week in the US, Facebook will feature links in the  Covid-19  Information Center to local ministry of health websites to help people understand whether they’re eligible to get vaccinated and how to do so. “And ...