Facebook said that the ban was a direct response to the country's federal government's news Media Code legislation, which is expected to become law soon and would require digital platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay news media companies whose content they host
I actually talked about this today in my College class that I'm in my University course, and we talked about how the threat of misinformation has been very prominent. And a lot of my classmates kind of expressed this distaste for Facebook decision because in the grand scheme of things in regards to how much Facebook makes, it really can spare the money to news outlets to host that information on their site. And it's really a shame that Facebook isn't investing in news and they're not investing in credible news