The Morrison government will make eleventh-hour amendments to its landmark media bargaining code in a deal with Facebook to restore news content to its platform.
Microsoft is teaming up with European publishers to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news,raising the stakes in the brewing battle led by Australia to get Google and Facebook to pay for journalism.
Tech mogul Cliff Obrecht has backed Facebook’s nationwide news ban and says the Australian government does not understand technology companies.
The problem with being a frog that’s boiled slowly over 15 years is that it can be hard to remember how you got into the pot in the first place,writes the boss of Pedestrian Group.
Facebook’s decision to pull the plug on news was both foreshadowed and preventable.
Social media behemoth Facebook tried to strike commercial deals with Nine and News Corp one day after they ripped content from the platform.
Discussions between the federal government and Facebook are taking place over the weekend,Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has revealed,and his talks with Mark Zuckerberg were constructive - but the stand-off hasn’t ended yet.
The News Media Bargaining Code is lousy legislation,but Facebook’s retaliatory ban on Australian news has misfired.
Like it or not,Facebook has become embedded in the country’s culture,but there is a contrast between how different demographics are affected by the news ban.
Until last Friday,Facebook was in active discussions with news outlets about payment for content. A final look at a bill for a news media bargaining code changed everything.
We need to remember a time when Facebook wasn’t the font of all information.