A few years ago, Australia passed legislation requiring platform giants including Facebook-owner Meta and YouTube’s parent Google to negotiate with news publishers to pay for journalism reshares.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta is considering blocking news content from the platform in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing ... place to detect and stop scams, but "there ...

Under the proposed new rules, any internet company that refuses to negotiate with publishers or removes news from its platform, as Facebook-owner Meta ... to pay regardless, reports said ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Facebook and Instagram-owner ... content and reduce its distribution in Feed and Explore so it is less likely to be seen," said Cheryl Seeto, Meta's Head of Policy in Australia ...

Australia's parliament on Thursday passed landmark legislation that will make it compulsory for tech giants like Facebook and Google to pay local media companies for their news content.