Just as in early 2021, when the Morrison government introduced its shakedown of the big tech companies at the behest of Australia’s corporate media, the level of gaslighting, self-interest and conflict of interest being served up by media over the role of tech giants in funding journalism is extraordinary.
Facebook’s refusal to submit to the shakedown — AKA the news media bargaining code — has elicited cries of outrage and demands for a declaration of regulatory war from News Corp, Nine and Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media, which continue to lie to their audiences that this is about tech giants paying for content they are stealing from news media.
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