Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsroomsAustralia plans to tax Meta, Google, and TikTok. This aims to fund news reporters. The government will introduce legislation by July 2. Pla...
29 Apr, 2026, 08.10 AM IST
Meta to end access to news on Facebook, Instagram in CanadaMeta Platforms Inc said on Thursday it would end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada after parliament approved...
23 Jun, 2023, 08.20 AM IST
Meta threatens to yank news content from California over payments billThe proposed California Journalism Preservation Act would require "online platforms" to pay a "journalism usage fee" to news providers whos...
01 Jun, 2023, 09.02 AM IST
Facebook is wrong to say news lacks economic value, says Canada PM Justin TrudeauTrudeau on Tuesday said, "that argument that the internet giants are putting forward is not just flawed, it's dangerous to our democracy, t...
09 May, 2023, 11.12 PM IST
Google, Meta executives push back against Canada online news billGoogle and Meta would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if legislation compelling internet companies to pay news publishers is pas...
04 May, 2023, 09.36 AM IST
Facebook rejects talks with Australia publisher, testing world's toughest online lawAustralia's competition watchdog is looking into a claim that Facebook Inc refused a publisher's request to negotiate a licensing deal, set...
25 Jun, 2021, 12.04 PM IST
Google & Facebook together pledged $600 million to help local news. Where did the money go?Both Facebook and Google say publishers benefit just from using their platforms.
11 Jun, 2021, 06.23 PM IST
View: India cannot let intermediaries like Google and Facebook bankrupt our news organisationsDigital technology platforms have played a key role in the value chain as an intermediary and have significantly amplified the reach of new...
07 Jun, 2021, 11.13 PM IST
Bill to aid US publishers vs. Google, Facebook rises againAustralia and other countries have started pushing mechanisms to support news publishers against Facebook and Google, which dominate online...
23 Mar, 2021, 11.49 AM IST
Bill to aid US publishers vs. Google, Facebook rises againAustralia and other countries have started pushing mechanisms to support news publishers against Facebook and Google, which dominate online...
22 Mar, 2021, 08.24 PM IST
Facebook, Google fight bill that would help US news industryGoogle has launched a website asserting it is "one of the world's biggest financial supporters of journalism" by virtue of the ad revenue a...
12 Mar, 2021, 05.51 PM IST
After newspapers, news channels' body writes to Google seeking compensation for content“Advertising revenues form the backbone of the news broadcasters,” said Rajat Sharma, president of NBA, in the letter. “However, they (news...
10 Mar, 2021, 07.43 PM IST
How countries are trying to make Google, Facebook pay for news contentGoogle and Facebook ferry more than 80% of external traffic to various news sites, according to Parse.ly, a web analytics and content optim...
27 Nov, 2020, 08.33 AM IST
ET Explains: Making internet majors pay for news content they make money fromAustralia has issued a draft on this critical process. ET explains
02 Aug, 2020, 11.43 PM IST
Facebook rejects call to share revenue with Oz Media“If there were no news content available on Facebook in Australia, we are confident the impact on Facebook’s community metrics and revenues...
15 Jun, 2020, 11.31 PM IST
Facebook mulls adding a dedicated news tab and paying publishersIt’s a change from the priorities Zuckerberg laid out last year, which focused on friends and family content in the news feed, shifting awa...
02 Apr, 2019, 11.33 PM IST
Google, Facebook forced to pay creators under new EU rulesThe new rules mean music producers and publishers could come gunning for more money from Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc
14 Feb, 2019, 11.20 PM IST