News Corp’s Michael Miller addressing the National Press Club on Wednesday.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Google,meanwhile,which recently renewed its commercial deal with News Corp,largely avoided Miller’s reproval.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should lobby for the break-up of these companies due to the national security threats,Miller said during the questions section of an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday.
“I think he’s[Albanese] got the perfect entrée now that there’s a coalition of senators in the US that are raising this,” Miller said. “Our parliamentarians should raise it with other parliamentarians. I know none of them are,but I think if the prime minister has that opportunity,he should take it.”
The executive chair of News Corp Australasia addressed a room of journalists in Canberra,urging the government to force Metato renegotiate new commercial deals with Australian publishers after it walked away in March.
Miller went on to defend the company’s reporting on the ABC,and coverage during the Voice to parliament referendum and of high-profile women and transgender issues,insisting none of its journalism is intended to cause harm or bully.
Despite calls for the expulsion of Meta and its four social media platforms (Facebook,Instagram,WhatsApp and Threads) from Australia,Miller defendedNews Corp’s recent content deal with artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.