Facebook has agreed to reverse its news ban. So why is it taking so long to restore news content?

Last Thursday morning, news services on Facebook rapidly went dark.

In a matter of hours, the social media network switched off news — a response to the Government’s laws forcing tech giants to pay publishers for news content.

On Tuesday, Facebook agreed to restore Australian news on Facebook “in the coming days”.

“After further discussions, we are satisfied that the Australian government has agreed to a number of changes and guarantees that address our core concerns,” a Facebook statement said.

But while it took only a matter of hours for news to be torn off our feeds, it’s taking far longer to build it back up again.

As of Thursday, almost no Australian news Facebook pages have come back…