‘Suck it and see’ or face a digital tax, former ACCC boss Allan Fels warns Google and Facebook
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Tech giants don't like Australia's plan to force Google and Facebook to pay for news, to fund public interest journalism. But the government may well respond with a digital tax, says Allan Fels.
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As news media revenues tumble still further amid the COVID-19 recession, the government has pledged mandatory rules to force tech giants to pay for using news content.
The government has told the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to develop a mandatory code of conduct to address bargaining power imbalances between media companies and digital platforms such as Facebook and Google
Facebook, the least trusted tech company, has taken the lead in fighting coronavirus misinformation.
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