> so it looks like Facebook won in the game of chicken between them and the Australian government

From my understanding of the situation, there was no game.

FB didn't give a shit about pulling news from Australia because it was a tiny proportion of their content.

The government/politicians were trying to strong arm FB into coughing up with zero leverage. It was insanely stupid.

Here's FB's post for context: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-vie...