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Indo-Pacific Legislators Mull Regulations Requiring Tech Platforms To Pay for News Content
A movement requiring technology companies to pay for news content hosted on their platforms has spread from Australia to other markets. The response of technology giants threatens to fracture the internet. Earlier this month, Meta blocked news access on its social networking services in Canada. The move came in response to the Online News Act’s passage in June. Facebook made a similar call in Australia in 2021: for six days, users could not post links to news on Facebook or Instagram. The result … Continue Reading
Apoorva Kolluru
