Australia’s legislation that would require tech giants to pay publishers for news content crossed another hurdle on Wednesday, with the upper chamber of the Parliament passing the legislation with amendments made af
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Facebook is back in negotiations with the government after the tech platform decided to restrict users in Australia from sharing news content.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing Facebook to reverse its decision to restrict users in the country from sharing news content over a proposed law that would make the platform pay publishers for the content. "The idea of shutting down the sorts of sites they did yesterday, as some sort of threat - well, I know how Australians react to that and I thought that was not a good move on their part," Morrison told reporters on.
The News Corp media conglomerate said Wednesday it has reached a deal for Google to pay for news content of its newspapers shared on the search giant's News Showcase.