Would a tech tax be a fair way to make Google and Meta pay for the news they distribute and profit from?
- Written by Anya Schiffrin, Senior Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
ShutterstockAs the News Media Bargaining Code agreements in Australia start to wind down, there is discussion about what will come next. Media academic Andrea Carson calls the codes, passed in 2021, “world-first” legislation because Australia was the first country to use competition law to get Google and Meta to pay news publishers for...
