Australia winning the war with Facebook over news content depends on achieving one herculean task, insider-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen says: convincing Mark Zuckerberg he’s wrong.

The Albanese government needs to play hardball with Facebook’s owner, Meta, on its decision to end deals to pay media companies for distributing their news on its platforms, said Ms Haugen, who exposed questionable behaviour at the tech giant in 2021.