Jim Chalmers says the Albanese government will make decisions to “protect kids online” amid a pressure campaign from US tech giants aimed at overhauling Australia’s regulation of digital platforms – ...

Australia should take note of Papua New Guinea’s ban on Facebook and give local regulators greater powers to rein in US tech ...

Responding to an invitation by US trade representative Jamieson Greer to identify “unfair trade practices by other countries, ...

The tech industry – particularly Big Tech platforms such as Google and Meta – says it is being “coerced” into handing cash to ...

A lobby group representing the likes of Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Uber, and Elon Musk’s X has urged US President Donald Trump’s administration to take aim at Australian laws it believes are ...

Some of the US’ biggest tech companies including Meta, Google, X and Apple are now formally lobbying the Trump administration ...

Back in 2021, the Australian government implemented its “News Media Bargaining Code” which effectively forces social apps and search engines to pay local publishers for any use of their ...

US President Donald Trump has been urged to attack Australia's media laws after a formal complaint described them as ...

Meta declined to comment on the ban. Mr Sims – the architect of Australia’s news media bargaining code which allowed social media platforms to compensate news outlets for using their content ...

A powerful grouping, which represents the interest of US tech giants, including Zuckerberg and Musk, has accused Australia of unfairly targeting them through the News Media Bargaining Code.

Google has published the results of an experiment it conducted to gauge the impact that news content had on its traffic and ...