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Australian lawmakers press ahead with plan to force Google and Facebook to pay for news despite search giant's threat to quit the country in protest
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Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID disinformation, China took a leading role An Associated Press investigation, conducted in collaboration with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, found that powerful political figures and allied media in China, the U.S., Russia and Iran flooded the globe with disinformation about the origins of the COVID pandemic. By ERIKA KINETZAssociated Press Share Clockwise from left: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei; Russian President Vladimir Putin; former U.S. President Trump; and Chinese President Xi Jinping. AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin BRU...
Australia to amend laws to make Google and Facebook pay By ROD McGUIRKFebruary 16, 2021 GMT FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a woman walks below a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, Calif. Australia’s government said on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, it will amend draft laws that would make Google and Facebook pay for news to clarify that publishers would be paid in lump sums rather than per click on news article links.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a woman walks below a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, Calif. Australia’s governm...
CANBERRA--Australia’s government said on Tuesday it will amend draft laws that would make Google a