The Australian government has been accused of backing down to Mark Zuckerberg by weakening new laws to regulate big tech in response to Facebook’s news ban. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young roasted Treasurer Josh Fryderberg, telling Parliament: ‘The government has buckled here. ‘You’ve blinked, you weakened the power the minister has because Facebook bullied you. This … Read more
The Australian government has been accused of backing down to Mark Zuckerberg by weakening new laws to regulate big tech in response to Facebook’s news ban. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young roasted Treasurer Josh Fryderberg, telling Parliament: ‘The government has buckled here. ‘You’ve blinked, you weakened the power the minister has because Facebook bullied you. This … Read more
Facebook and Google could lose their bargaining power under a new proposed bill in the US that would force them to pay news outlets for content. The internet giants currently profit from the content that news organizations produce by hosting them on their respective platforms. They do not pay the publishers for the content, and … Read more