How Badly Will the Australian Government Screw Up its Relationship With Meta?
With Meta ending its publisher deals in Australia, some are running the scenarios out to see what could happen. None look particularly good.
#Copyright #News #Australia #Canada #Media #Meta #NewsBargainingCode #OnlineNewsAct #publishers
Predictable: Facebook Ends News Tab in Australia and the US
Meta has made the next step in distancing itself from news. This by ending the Facebook news tab in both the US and Australia.
https://www.freezenet.ca/predictable-facebook-ends-news-tab-in-australia-and-the-us/
#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Facebook #LinkTax #Meta #NewsBargainingCode #OnlineNewsAct #US
Australian Media Panics, Starts Publishing Conspiracy Theories About Newsless Meta Platforms in Canada
A recent decision by Meta to not renew their link tax ransom payments in Australia has the media their hitting the panic button.
Predictable: Meta Announces It Would Not Be Renewing Australian News Deals
The pullout of Meta is predictably not exclusive to Canada. Now, it looks like news links will be dropped in Australia as well.
https://www.freezenet.ca/predictable-meta-announces-it-would-not-be-renewing-australian-news-deals/
#Copyright #News #Australia #LinkTax #Meta #NewsBargainingCode #publishers
Rod Sims Defends His Link Tax With Complete Nonsense Talking Points
Faced with a looming pullout of Meta, Rod Sims pushes his nonsense talking points as if it's going to make a difference.
https://www.freezenet.ca/rod-sims-defends-his-link-tax-with-complete-nonsense-talking-points/
#Copyright #International #News #Australia #Canada #LinkTax #Meta #NewsBargainingCode #OnlineNewsAct #RodSims
That's not just a hypothetical risk: in #Canada, Big Tech entered into negotiations with the *#TorontoStar* - the country's widest-circulating paper - ahead of a proposed #NewsBargainingCode that was working its way through Parliament. Once that settlement was reached, the *Star* abruptly killed "Defanging Tech" its *excellent* critical series on the tech giants it had just climbed into bed with:
https://www.thestar.com/news/big-tech.html
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Meanwhile, in #Australia, the #NewsBargainingCode stampeded tech giants into "voluntary" negotiations with the media companies, allowing #RupertMurdoch's #Newscorp to claim the lion's share, and then conduct layoffs across its newsrooms.
While in #France, the link tax depends on publishers integrating with #GoogleShowcase, a product that makes Google *more* money from news content and makes news publishers *more* dependent on Google:
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