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Canada and Australia will coordinate their respective efforts to force Big Tech to compensate news outlets for content and take action on online hate speech, the Prime Minister’s Office said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison Monday about the issue, though access to information documents show efforts between the two countries to cooperate on policies toward digital platforms go back to at least 2019.
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Facebook under fire over moves in Australia to ‘bully democracy’
Politicians and news providers in the UK and US have condemned the site after it blocked access to Australian media content
By Archie Bland,
Amanda Meade
and Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian
Politicians, news providers and civil society groups in the UK and US have rounded on Facebook and said the company’s decision to block all media content on its platform in Australia should hasten moves to bring its powers under control.
In a step condemned as “an attempt to bully a democracy” and “threatening to bring an entire country to its knees,” Facebook stopped its 18 million Australian users from viewing or sharing news stories overnight in an escalating row over whether it should have to pay media companies for its content. It said the new rules “ignore the realities” of its relationship with news publishers.