In Australia, Big Tech divisions boil over

A common adversary was not enough for Big Tech rivals Google and Facebook to work together.
The tech giants on Wednesday took opposing sides to upcoming rules in Australia that would force both companies to pay local publishers whenever their content appears on these digital platforms.
Google made peace with Australia's biggest publisher, Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp, and agreed to a three-year licensing deal. The search giant signed similar deals with the country's other largest publishers. Yet, the same day, Facebook decided it would restrict all news content - both from Australian publishers and international outlets - from appearing on its platforms in the country.
The move showed how the friction among two of Silicon Valley's biggest corporations is becoming increasingly heated even as they face the same regulatory challenges across the globe.
The months-long battle has pitted Google and Facebook against the country's entrenched media interests, including those of Murdoch who owns much of Australia's media landscape. The tug-of-war has become the latest skirmish in a global fight over who has the right - tech companies or newspapers - to profit from digital material that appears on people's screens every day.
"Facebook does not steal news content. Publishers choose to share their stories on Facebook," Campbell Brown, the company's vice president of global news partnerships, said in a statement titled "The Value of News on Facebook."
"I hope in the future, we can include news for people in Australia once again," she added. "For now, we continue to be focused on bringing Facebook News and other new products to more countries and we have no intention of slowing down."
Australia's lawmakers are in the final throes of passing the "News Media Bargaining Code," legislation that would order Facebook and Google (but not other Big Tech companies that display local content) to pay publishers for their digital material. Both companies had threatened to pull out of the country, though local officials had rejected those claims as scaremongering.
"It will be a disruption for Australians if they carried out their threats. The world is watching. It's a high stakes game," Rod Sims, head of Australia's competition regulator who has championed for the new rules, told POLITICO, speaking before Facebook's announcement on Wednesday.
The Big Tech spat in Australia follows a similar battle in Europe where rules passed in 2018 also required tech companies to compensate local publishers when their content appeared with aggregated news services like Google News. That led to a bitter lobbying battle, particularly in France, where the search giant earlier this year agreed to pay newspapers after initially refusing to do so.
The diverging decisions by Google and Facebook on how to handle the upcoming Australian rules may highlight the different priorities for each company.
While they have both collectively earmarked billions to help publishers worldwide adapt to the new digital landscape, Facebook has tried to pull back from serving up news content to its users, in part because of the polarization around the recent U.S. election in which online content, often from media organizations, may have inflamed tensions. News content, according to the social networking giant, represents just 4 percent of the content that its users see in their feeds, globally.
In contrast, Google has invested significantly in its "News Showcase" service that allows publishers from Australia, Europe, the United States and elsewhere to display their content - and make money from it - within the search giant's expanding ecosystem of digital services.
Yet even for the tech giant, Wednesday's announcement to pay Murdoch and other media groups represented an abrupt U-turn. Only a week earlier, Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, had slammed Australia's proposals, while still acknowledging a willingness to pay local publishers.
"The law would unfairly require unknown payments for simply showing links to news businesses, while giving, to a favored few, special previews of search ranking," he said.

The President of the United States had a very good night at his CNN town hall on Tuesday.

Not only did Joe Biden make it very clear there was a new kind of POTUS in office, but the seasoned politician won the ratings and viewership race in a near landslide.

In his first such appearance since moving into the White House on January 20, Biden’s 9 – 10:15 PM EST stint on the AT&T-owned cable newser snagged 3.5 million viewers and an audience of 880,000 in the news demo of adults 25-54.

That’s a small 6% bump up in total sets of eyeballs from how the then former VP did in his last socially distanced CNN town hall back on September 17. The results of last night’s Anderson Cooper moderated event also easily topped both Fox News Channel’s Hannity and MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show in both total viewers by 24% and 18% respectively.

Focusing on the 25-54 demo, Biden’s town hall at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater before an audience of approximately 60 voters whooped FNC and the Comcast-owned cabler by 124% and 108% respectively, according to Nielsen data.

All of which delivered a victorious Wednesday to CNN.

Mainly centered on the coronavirus pandemic, the vaccine rollout and getting the crippled economy back on its feet, the town hall itself gave the often loquacious and always emphatic Biden a chance to show his command of facts and policy, as well as connect with those in the Pabst and at home. The town hall was also noticeably for Biden’s dismissal of his predecessor and Donald Trump’s February 13 acquittal at his second impeachment trial

“I’m tired of talking about Donald Trump, I don’t want to talk about him anymore,” said the 46th POTUS of the 45th, who he threw pretty effective shade on in labelling the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host as the “former guy.”
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