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1. Facebook parent accused of 'robber-baron' tactics in Canad: (Technology Regulation); Facebook's parent company Meta has been accused of resorting to "robber-baron" tactics in Canada by threatening to block sharing of news feeds if Ottawa legislates to force it to pay news outlets for their ...; Created on 31 October 2022
2. Facebook threatens to block news sharing in Canada as it did Down Under: (Technology Regulation); Meta, the parent company of social media giant Facebook, has threatened to block the sharing of news feeds in Canada — similar to what it did in Australia — if Ottawa legislates to force it to pay news ...; Created on 25 October 2022
3. Sims says Facebook must sign deals with SBS, The Conversation: (Technology Regulation); Former ACCC chair Rod Sims says under the terms of an ongoing Treasury review into the News Media Bargaining Code, social media giant Facebook should be forced to negotiate and strike content deals with ...; Created on 23 May 2022
4. Digital platforms regulation a hot topic for competition regulators worldwide, says Sims: (Technology Regulation); ... The ACCC is in the thick of this debate. “This issue comes after the ACCC’s work has seen, for example, the News Media Bargaining Code enacted, a review of our privacy laws started, and the introduction ...; Created on 15 October 2021
5. Facebook again shows govt who is the boss in news content deals: (Open Sauce); ... under the news media content legislation. A report in the Sydney Morning Herald said Facebook had given no reason for its refusal to sign agreements with these two organisations. Agreements have been ...; Created on 24 September 2021
6. The ACCC - Platforms’ dominance of apps market needs to be addressed: (Technology Regulation); ... not enough on their own,” Mr Sims said. “Australia was an early mover with our legislated News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code. However, other major jurisdictions are now considering, ...; Created on 24 August 2021
7. How Facebook’s dark ads amplify regressive, racist, or sexist activity: (Apps); ... by US news outlet ProPublica which tracked political advertising on Facebook. It allows users to automatically donate their adverts into a database, which could then be collated and filtered by demographic ...; Created on 05 July 2021
8. MEGA UPDATED: Australian IT industry responds to 2021 Federal Budget: (Government Tech); ... software company, nimbus, says: The Budget’s focus on IT led innovation is welcome news for Australian export growth in leading edge technology and patents. nimbus has a worldwide patent application ...; Created on 11 May 2021
9. ACCC authorises Country Press Australia collective bargaining with Google, Facebook: (Technology Regulation); ... their news content that appears on the platforms. CPA - an industry body that represents the interests of independent regional and local newspapers throughout Australia - currently represents 81 ...; Created on 29 April 2021
10. ACMA opens applications for news media bargaining code: (Technology Regulation); The telecommunications industry regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has opened applications for Australian news businesses wishing to register for the News Media and Digital ...; Created on 04 March 2021
11. Facebook, Frydenberg both claim victory; for Google, silence is golden: (Open Sauce); With the news media code now signed into law, it is time for all three entities involved in the drama that played out over the last few weeks — Google, Facebook and the Federal Government — to claim victory. ...; Created on 26 February 2021
12. Facebook has triumphed in govt stoush and nothing has changed: Budde: (Technology Regulation); ... happy. but nothing has changed." He said after a brief skirmish, Facebook emerged triumphant because the changes made to the legislation — officially known as News Media and Digital Platforms Bargaining ...; Created on 24 February 2021
13. Facebook allowed to decide if it will use news and the sources as well: (Technology Regulation); ANALYSIS Despite all the brave talk emanating from Canberra, Facebook has comprehensively dictated the terms under which it will restore news content to Australians. The company has been told that ...; Created on 23 February 2021
14. Govt climbs down, Facebook to restore Australian news pages: (Technology Regulation); Social media giant Facebook has agreed to restore Australian news content in "coming days" after the Federal Government made additional amendments to the news media code bill that is currently in the Senate. ...; Created on 23 February 2021
15. Facebook: should Scomo take the issue to the UN Security Council?: (Open Sauce); ... competing to be dubbed the silliest of the lot. Primacy must go to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who dug his heels in and reiterated his determination to pass the news media code into law. Scomo was ...; Created on 20 February 2021
16. Facebook: high time for Australians to wake up and smell the roses: (Open Sauce); Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has made his reaction known to the blocking of news content in the country by Facebook – in a post on Facebook. Morrison is a bit thick, so the irony of doing ...; Created on 19 February 2021
17. Google wins quietly, Facebook uses the nuclear option: (Open Sauce); Both Google and Facebook have demonstrated to the Australian Government in no uncertain terms who exactly is calling the shots in the stoush over the news media code, but in diametrically different ways. ...; Created on 18 February 2021
18. Met office among sites blocked as Facebook ban bites in Australia: (Technology Regulation); ... from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content. These pages merely say "no posts yet", though there would have been plenty of content ahead of the imposition of the restrictions. ...; Created on 18 February 2021
19. Facebook blocks Australians from viewing, sharing news content: (Technology Regulation); Social media giant Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content, the company has said, adding that this is in response to ...; Created on 18 February 2021
20. News Corporation cuts global three-year deal with Google: (Technology Regulation); Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has struck a global three-year deal with Google in return for what the publisher has described as "significant payments". The announcement, on Wednesday US time, was ...; Created on 18 February 2021
21. Nine signs $30m+ deal with Google for use of its news content: (Technology Regulation); Nine Entertainment, owner of a number of well-known newspapers which it bought from the now defunct Fairfax Media, has signed a letter of intent for a five-year deal with Google in return for payment of ...; Created on 17 February 2021
22. Govt offers more sweeteners to Google, Facebook over media code: (Technology Regulation); More Australian media deals with Google's News Showcase appear to be in the offing, aided by some government sweeteners, with a number of news publishers reported to be in discussions with the online advertising ...; Created on 17 February 2021
23. Frydenberg expects more media deals before code becomes law: (Technology Regulation); Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has said he expects to see "some significant commercial deals" between Australian news publishers and digital platforms before the government votes on its news media code which ...; Created on 16 February 2021
24. News media code: Govt may yield to wishes of Google, Facebook: (Technology Regulation); The Federal Government is likely to give Google and Facebook a major concession before it puts its news media code legislation up for a vote, with a clause that says the two companies do not have to cut ...; Created on 15 February 2021
25. 'Some people are saying': Google adopts Fox News-style tactic: (Open Sauce); With the time for changes to be made to the news media code rapidly running out, Google, one of the digital platforms that will be affected, has turned to a Fox News-style tactic: using the "some people ...; Created on 13 February 2021
26. Parliament to consider news media code legislation beginning next week: (Technology Regulation); The news media code will be considered in Parliament in the week beginning 15 February after the Senate Economics Legislation Committee submitted its report on the bill to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on ...; Created on 12 February 2021
27. Microsoft president backs Australian media code for other countries too: (Technology Regulation); Microsoft would support the implementation of a law similar to the Australian news media code in other countries, including the US, the company's president, Brad Smith, says. "This [the stoush over the ...; Created on 12 February 2021
28. Senate panel not expected to propose changes in news media code bill: (Technology Regulation); A Senate committee that has held public hearings into the Federal Government's news media code is unlikely to propose any changes to the bill before it. The Senate Standing Committee on Economics held ...; Created on 12 February 2021
29. Google does not rule out pulling additional services from Australia: (Technology Regulation); Google has refused to rule out the possibility that it will pull other services apart from search from Australia in the event that the Federal Government goes ahead and legislates its News Media and Digital ...; Created on 11 February 2021
30. US asks Australia to scrap news media code law: (Technology Regulation); The US Government has asked Australia to drop its move for a news media code to make it compulsory for digital platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay local news organisations for using material from ...; Created on 19 January 2021
31. News media code: ball firmly in Federal Govt's cour: (Open Sauce); The next move in the battle over the news media code lies with the government, after Google essentially said on Friday that nothing in the law that was introduced in Parliament on 9 December was workable. ...; Created on 21 December 2020
32. Google rejects news media code, says it is 'unworkable: (Technology Regulation); Search giant Google has rejected the Australian news media code which was introduced into Parliament on 9 December, saying it "remains unworkable, but there is a way forward". But, in a blog post issued ...; Created on 18 December 2020
33. Government pumps up its own tyres over dud news media code: (Open Sauce); The Federal Government has blown a chance it had to implement a world-leading deal with digital giants Google and Facebook, backing down even before the bill for its so-called News Media and Digital Platforms ...; Created on 09 December 2020
34. Frydenberg set to introduce news media code into Parliament on Wednesday: (Technology Regulation); The Coalition Government will introduce the news media code, known as News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, into Parliament on Wednesday. A joint statement made by Treasurer Josh ...; Created on 08 December 2020
35. Govt yields to some demands from digital platforms over media code: (Technology Regulation); Digital platforms Google and Facebook have managed to change a number of terms in the news media code, which has been given the name News Media and Digital Platforms Bargaining Code, with the government ...; Created on 08 December 2020
36. Google's Vint Cerf takes up cudgels for company over news media cod: (Technology Regulation); Australian news businesses that are arguing for a news media code to ensure that digital platforms pay for their content are trying to turn back time and make the Internet much less open and its business ...; Created on 25 November 2020
37. Media bosses ramp up pressure on govt over news media code: (Technology Regulation); With Parliament having just another eight days to sit this year, the bosses of Australia's media organisations have sought to pressure politicians into getting the promised news media code passed before ...; Created on 23 November 2020
38. News media code set to be made law before Parliament rises for the year: (Technology Regulation); After a long silence, Google has once again spoken up on the news media code that is expected to be finalised by 10 December, reiterating that it will only accept a code that is "fair, principled and technically ...; Created on 19 November 2020
39. Google ANZ chief repeats it will not launch news product in Australia: (Technology Regulation); Search company Google has reiterated its objection to the proposed Australian mandatory news media code, repeating that it would put on hold any plans to implement its so-called news showcase in Australia ...; Created on 12 October 2020
40. Google back with another salvo against media code of conduct: (Open Sauce); With news suggesting that it may soon be hit with an anti-trust suit by the US Department of Justice, Google has come out firing again at the start of another week against the media code of conduct proposed ...; Created on 28 September 2020
41. ACCC describes Facebook threat on media code as ill-timed: (Government Tech Policy); The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has described Facebook's threat to prevent Australians from sharing local and international news on the site if the ACCC's draft code on news sharing become ...; Created on 02 September 2020
42. Investment to increase ‘quality' of AI technologies, says ACMA: (Strategy); ... agency services. The ACCC is also developing a mandatory code of conduct to address bargaining power imbalances between Australian news media businesses and each ofGoogle and Facebook. Product safety ...; Created on 04 August 2020
43. You need us, we don't need you, Facebook tells news companie: (Technology Regulation); Social media behemoth Facebook has told the Australian competition watchdog that its community metrics or revenue would not be affected in any way if no Australian news content was available on its web ...; Created on 16 June 2020
44. Commercial Radio calls for licensing-based revenue sharing with Facebook, Google: (Strategy); ... and Facebook generate from radio-created content. CRA made its comments in a submission to the competition watchdog ACCC’s consutation paper on a mandatory news media bargaining code, saying commercial ...; Created on 09 June 2020
45. ACCC seeks input to develop code for digital firms to pay for news: (Technology Regulation); ... the use of Australian news content. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission was tasked with creating the code on 20 April by the government, which brought forward its timetable for such ...; Created on 19 May 2020
46. Govt to provide $26.9m for ACCC to monitor digital platforms: (Government Tech Policy); ... framework covering both online and offline delivery of media content to Australian consumers. "Addressing bargaining power imbalances between digital platforms and news media businesses by asking the ...; Created on 12 December 2019
47. Govt response to digital platforms inquiry report likely to be delayed: (Government Tech Policy); ... designated digital platforms to each provide the Australian Communications and Media Authority with codes to address the imbalance in the bargaining relationship between these platforms and news media ...; Created on 03 December 2019
48. Sims offers 23 remedies for dealing with digital market imbalance: (Technology Regulation); ... are comprehensive and forward looking and deal with the many competition, consumer, privacy and news media issues we have identified throughout the course of this inquiry,” ACCC chair Rod Sims said in ...; Created on 26 July 2019
49. ACCC suggests body to curb excesses of Google, Facebook: (Market); ... in online search, search advertising and news referral while Facebook had similar clout in markets for social media, display advertising and online news referral. Among the preliminary recommendations ...; Created on 10 December 2018
50. Google, Facebook distorting digital ad market: Free TV Australia: (Technology Regulation); ... aim at Google and Facebook for what it called "a significant and irreversible effect on traditional media companies". "The diversion of advertising revenue to these dominant digital titans away from newspapers, ...; Created on 04 May 2018

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