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Google launches platform in Australia with news it has paid for – Al Jazeera English
The News Showcase platform offers news that Google has paid for through its own content agreements with publishers.
Tech giant Google on Friday launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for, striking its own content deals with publishers in a drive to show that legislation proposed by Canberra to enforce payments is unnecessary.
Only rolled out previously in Brazil and Germany, the News Showcase platform was originally slated for launch last June. But Alphabet Inc-owned Google delayed plans when Canberra moved to make it a legal requirement for Google and Facebook to pay Australian media companies…
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