Facebook Australia’s news ban threat condemned as ‘ill-timed and misconceived’
Facebook Australia’s threat to block users from sharing news content on its platforms has been condemned as “ill-timed and misconceived”.…
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Epic battle lies ahead for news publishers to get a fair revenue share from tech platforms
News publishers can only look on with envy at the success of Epic Games – the US-based tech firm behind…
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Google’s battle with Australian news industry: Search giant is ‘trying to gaslight users because it doesn’t want to pay for news’
If you went to use Google [in Australia] yesterday, you may have been met with a pop-up, warning that the…
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July readership figures for world’s biggest news websites: Mail Online and Fox News make up ground on ‘broadsheet’ rivals
The world’s biggest news websites collectively regained traffic in July after their performances tailed off in previous months as interest…
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Google enables Covid-19 disinformation sites to make money, report finds
A new University of Oxford report has exposed how Covid-19 disinformation websites are able to use Google’s search engine and…
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Facebook and Google referrals boost contributed to jump in news traffic at start of Covid-19 crisis
A boost in referrals from Google and Facebook contributed significantly to the uplift in traffic to news websites seen at…
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Australia reveals plans to force Google and Facebook to pay publishers and correct ‘power imbalances’
Google and Facebook could be fined millions of dollars by the Australian Government if they do not comply with a…
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A group of MPs is calling on the UK Government to immediately launch a new body to regulate social media…
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