Australian watchdog targets Facebook and Google over news stories
Competition regulator to publish draft rules forcing tech giants to share revenue generated from news with the publishers
13 July 2020 - 19:10
New York — Facebook and Google have for years operated like shop windows for news stories, plying their billions of visitors with free snippets and information from articles across the web. An antitrust tussle that is coming to a head in Australia is set to change that.
Australia’s competition regulator will this month publish draft rules forcing the two US tech giants to share revenue generated from news with the original publishers, including Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. A final version of the code, the first of its type in the world, is due to follow soon after...
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