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Governments Shouldn’t Choose the News in Your Feed – WIRED
A proposed law in Australia would force Facebook and Google to pay news publishers for their content—and create a state-sponsored media regime.
The dispute between news publishers, tech platforms, and the Australian government exploded last week, as Facebook threatened to pull news from its platform in Australia if proposed legislation on a new bargaining code is passed. Google published an open letter warning of the dangers of the new law.
The legislation would create a mandatory bargaining code between publishers and Facebook and Google, requiring the two platforms to host news from any publisher that participates in the code and to …
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