Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has warned Facebook that its decision to pull news content from Australian users will damage its reputation in the country. “Facebook was wrong. Facebook’s actions were unnecessary, they were heavy-handed, and they will damage its reputation here in Australia,” Frydenberg told reporters in Canberra. “Their decision to block Australians’ access to government sites … were completely unrelated to the media code which is yet to pass through the Senate,” he said. The social media giant’s actions on Thursday has instead confirmed for all Australians “the immense market power of these media digital giants,” he said. “These digital giants loom very, very large in our economy and on the digital landscape,” Frydenberg said. News outlets including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, ABC, and The Epoch Times, discovered on Thursday morning that the tech giant had implemented an outright ban across their Facebook pages. However, a swathe of non-media …