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Russia rebukes Facebook for blocking some media posts
Russia has accused Facebook of violating its citizens’ rights by blocking some media outlets’ content in the latest standoff between a government and the ‘Big Tec...
Facebook signs letter of intent with three Australian media firms
Facebook has said it had signed letters of intent with three Australian media firms, a day after the country’s Parliament passed a law forcing it to pay media companies for u...
Aussie lawmakers expected to pass amendments to Facebook and Google law
Australian lawmakers are expected to approve amendments to legislation to force Google and Facebook to pay media companies for news content, despite opposition from some minor poli...
French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with publishers
French antitrust investigators have accused Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over...
Microsoft teams up with EU publishers amid Facebook’s Australian spat
Microsoft and European media groups have urged EU regulators to require online platforms to seek arbitration in disagreements over how to share revenues with news publishers, a sti...
Australia says no further Facebook, Google amendments
Australia will not alter legislation that would make Facebook and Google pay news outlets for content, a senior lawmaker said, as the Aussie government neared a final vote on wheth...
Australia won’t advertise COVID-19 vaccine on Facebook
Australia’s government pledged a publicity campaign for its rollout of COVID-19 vaccine, but not on Facebook, as a feud continues over the social media giant blocking news co...
Facebook ‘unfriends’ Australia: uproar as news pages go dark
Facebook is facing significant backlash from publishers and politicians after blocking news feeds in Australia in a surprise escalation of a dispute with the government over a law ...
Facebook news goes dark in Australia as content spat escalates
Aussies woke to empty news feeds on Facebook this morning after the social media titan blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute with the governm...
Australia says content laws already working after Nine-Google deal reports
The Australian government said the promised laws forcing tech giants to pay media outlets for content had already succeeded after reports that publisher and broadcaster Nine Entert...
Australia: Seven West Media strikes deal with Google for news
Seven West Media became Australia’s first major news outlet to strike a licensing deal with Google, as the government pushes ahead with a law that would force the internet gi...
Comment: Why Australia is right to challenge Google and Facebook
It has been a pleasant surprise to see the Australian government holding its ground against Google, Facebook and the tech Oligarchs attempting to exert near total control over comm...
As Google threatens an exit from Australia, Microsoft talks up Bing with PM
Software giant Microsoft is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Alphabet pulls its Google search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minis...
Zuck reached out to Aussie lawmakers over new media rules
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg called Australian lawmakers last week to discuss rules that would make internet giants pay news outlets for content but failed to persuade them to ...