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What Google, Facebook changes really mean Google has dominated web searches in Australia for years, with 93 per cent of Aussies saying they used the company’s search engine in November 2020. Opinion by Peter Lewis, Director of the Centre for Responsible Technology 1st Feb 2021 5:36 AM | Updated: 5:36 AM Australians may soon be caught in a high stakes battle between a hostile foreign power and our national government. Rather than facing missiles and invad...

Facebook reboots talks will small news companies about paying for content.

News by Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson   Google could face even more regulations in Australia after a damning interim report by the country's competition watchdog. The report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) found the trillion-dollar company dominated digital advertising in Australia, and would be investigated over allegations it had abused its market power. The findings come less than a week after Google threatened to withdraw its search engine from Australian users in protest against proposed laws that would force it to pay for ...

The threats follow with hiding some Australian news sites from search results, in a move media outlets said was a show of "extraordinary power". Frydenberg told reporters in Melbourne the government had worked with the Australian competition regulator for two years developing the code to "see the digital giants pay for original content that is generated by our media businesses". Frydenberg accused the tech companies of "changing the goalposts" by first opposing the government's proposal of final offer arbitration and now opposing paying for clicks on media content displayed in search ...

'Inevitable' Google and Facebook will pay for Australian news, treasurer says