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Late last year here in Australia, I remember ACT Health announced a major change to the territory's COVID restrictions exclusively on Facebook Live one afternoon and didn't update their website until the following morning.

Highly inconvenient for someone without Facebook looking to visit the territory.

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While I understand the relevance to the tweet, at least to me, this isn't Facebook's fault, but rather the government's for using a private companies' platform, instead of it's own website.

I understand why so many companies and services are piggybacking on Facebook/WhatsApp, but they should always have a fallback, in case their single third-party service goes down.

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