And Australian PM Scott Morrison was entirely right to call for a global alliance of democracies to make Google and Facebook pay much more for news content they profit from. Even though, nothing could be clearer than the case for making Big Tech cough up more money to democratic India’s news content publishers. Around 80% of external traffic to news websites is carried by Google and Facebook. Now think of a scenario where Google and Facebook are by law or regulation obliged to pay a fair share of earnings from digital distribution of news. Big Tech is on notice in other democracies for destroying the viability of independent journalism.

Source: Economic Times February 24, 2021 21:12 UTC