Facebook deletes news reports from group supporting victims of child sex abuse following new policy update on content from Australian news publishers: Richie Scutt created the Facebook group "Survivors and Friends" in 2016, "to share news reports on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The group had become "a lifeline for many," according to Scutt. "We have helped people to come forward to the police, we provide peer-to-peer support and we have advocated to Parliament and within churches," Scutt said, "and this is all based around discussions that are linked to media stories that are coming through [the group]." Scutt also noted that "Survivors may see a news article [in the group] and it may be their only way of knowing 'hey, I was also abused by this particular offender'." However, after a Facebook policy update that blocked Australians from accessing news in their Facebook feeds, Scutt also lost his archive of over 2,000 news articles shared to his page. "I was devastated. I saw five years of work disappear in a second," remarked Scutt. Facebook said its move was in response to the Australian government's proposed media bargaining laws, which would force major tech giants to pay Australian news outlets for their content.