The Tasmanian Sexual Assault Support Service and Hobart Women's Shelter have been taken down, along with the City of Launceston, Northern Midlands Council, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmania and more.

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In response to the action, the City of Launceston has released advice to residents to visit their website directly for any updates.

But just after 12.30pm, council pages started to reappear on Facebook, while others remained banned.

Facebook has since released a statement saying it will "reverse any pages that are inadvertently impacted", however the move may have been a result of the wording of the government's media code, with a broad definition of "news".

"As the law does not provide clear guidance on the definition of news content, we have taken a broad definition in order to respect the law as drafted," Facebook said in a statement.

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Premier Peter Gutwein described Facebook's approach as "disappointing".

Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O'Connor said it amounted to "corporate bastardry".

"Many Tasmanians get their news primarily from Facebook," she said.

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"It's really important that people are able to access local news. We've seen a move away from people buying a newspaper, and getting their news through Facebook.

"I think a lot of people will wake up today and when they go to Facebook, see a very different content. They will go to where they usually do to access information and it won't be there.

"Let's hope that, to counter that, they go out to buy their local newspaper and watch their local news, because you can rely on those services. They can't get taken away by Facebook."

Clark independent MHR Andrew Wilkie said Facebook has shown "poor judgement".

"Given the ban has been timed to coincide with the passage of the media bargaining code through the Lower House of Federal Parliament, it is impossible to view this as anything other than a digital middle finger from a social media giant that clearly doesn't want to play by the rules," he said.