Facebook revealed on Friday initial agreements with 3 Australian publishers, a day after Parliament passed a law that would make digital giants pay for news.

Facebook said letters of intent were signed with independent news organizations: Private Media, Schwartz Media and Solstice Media.

And she added - in a statement - that the trade agreements will be signed in their final form within 60 days.

"These agreements will bring a new list of distinguished journalism, including some prepaid content to Facebook," the statement said.

Schwartz Media CEO Rebecca Costello said the deal would help her company continue to produce independent journalism.

"It has never been more important than it is now; to have a polyphony in the Australian press," she added.

Private Media CEO Will Hayward said the new deal builds on a partnership with Facebook.

On Thursday, the Australian parliament approved final amendments to a law that obliges technology companies to pay news media for their content they publish.

Facebook agreed to lift a 6-day ban, which had denied Australians access to and sharing of news.

And it does not appear that access to Australian news sites has been fully restored until Friday.

Google - another digital giant - has already signed content licensing deals or is close to striking deals with some of Australia's biggest news publishers.

For his part, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the new law was crucial to the deals negotiated by Australian media companies with Internet portals.

Under the law, if the platform cannot reach an agreement with a news company, a jury can be appointed to set a legally binding price for the press.

"The global tech giants are changing the world, but we cannot allow them to run the world," Morrison assured reporters.

"People in free societies like Australia - who go to the polls and go and vote - are the ones who should run the world."

And Facebook intends to correct the mistake after it came under a barrage of criticism for temporarily banning newspaper articles in Australia to protest a law requiring digital giants to make payments to the media, by investing "at least" $ 1 billion in news content in the next three years.

"We have invested $ 600 million since 2018 to support the media sector, and we intend to invest" at least an additional $ 1 billion in the next three years, "social networking giant Nick Clegg wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

The official did not give any details about the distribution of the company's future investments in the media, nor the form that these investments will take.

Will it be cash, partnerships, training, or copyright?

Clegg assured that "Facebook wants more than ever to (contract) partnerships with press publishers."

The company's promise comes a day after the end of intense tensions with the Australian government over a bill regulating relations between traditional media - which are facing great financial difficulties - and the giants that control the Internet and earn a large portion of advertising revenue.

After prohibiting the publication of links to news articles belonging to local or international media in response to this law, the owner of the Instagram and WhatsApp applications finally retracted and concluded at the last minute an agreement with Canberra that includes payment of money to the media in exchange for the contents that are published on his platforms.

Under the settlement reached with the Australian government, Facebook and Google, which are targeted in the bill, will not be subject to penalties if they enter into some agreements with local media with the aim of paying money for the news.

The two companies were given two months to negotiate these arrangements and avoid a binding decision.