Explainer

Here's what the new legislation for tech giants and the media means

Steve Evans
Updated December 10 2020 - 12:37pm, first published 3:00am
Google and Facebook will need to pay media organisations for news they promote and use. Picture: Shutterstock
Google and Facebook will need to pay media organisations for news they promote and use. Picture: Shutterstock

The government has introduced legislation which would transform the relationship between Google and Facebook, on the one hand, and the established media, on the other.

Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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