By BARBARA ORTUTAY and TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writers For years, Facebook has been in a defensive crouch amid a slew of privacy scandals, antitrust lawsuits and charges that it was letting hate speech and extremism destroy democracy. Early Thursday, though, it abruptly pivoted to take the offensive in Australia, where it lowered the boom on publishers and the government with a sudden decision to block news on its platform across the entire country. That power play — a response to an Australian law that would compel Facebook to pay publishers for using their news stories — might easily backfire, […]

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