Australia’s crackdown on Google, Facebook ‘worked’
A government review into Australia’s media bargaining code, which extracted millions of dollars from the global tech giants, found the legislation corrected the “imbalance” between news publishers and tech platforms.
But media outlets such as The Conversation and SBS remain upset that Facebook has not entered into agreements with them. According to the review, Facebook said its “budget to support content agreements for these products was limited” and “some news businesses would not receive a deal”.
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