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Alice Dawkins

This Month

Bad blood between Meta and the news publishers has been marinating since the company walked back on their news deal in March.

Meta’s news bluff is called

The News Bargaining Incentive is a bespoke measure designed to plug the enforceability gaps in the News Media Bargaining Code.

October

Policy makers are realising that real problem with Big Teach is the technical systems and advertising infrastructure on which the whole operation rests.

Big tech ad levy can’t be a sugar hit

The proposal to pull financial contributions from digital advertising and direct them towards public interest journalism mustn’t let the platforms buy their way out of accountability for their questionable business as usual.

September

Unlike cigarettes, tech products aren’t mere end-user consumables that can simply be locked up in a corner shop’s cabinet.

Banning kids could give social media giants an easy out from regulation

Big tech certainly acts like big tobacco, but anti-smoking style bans to protect young people are not enough to regulate the harms associated with digital platforms.

April

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Forrest v Facebook’s impunity and audacity

World-first litigation sees Australia again become ‘ground zero’ for a showdown between public interest regulation and one of big tech’s worst online offenders.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/alice-dawkins-p537ea