Murdoch has spent the last decade trying to force Google to just give him money, and has (ridiculously) convinced a bunch of politicians to agree with him (and some useful idiots elsewhere). Seems like it worked. https://t.co/b4ohs2Cz1O

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) February 17, 2021

Bet Google will hold this up as evidence Australia doesn’t need a new law forcing it to share revenues with publishers. https://t.co/HMBx6OMIGC

— Brian Fung (@b_fung) February 17, 2021

Google is actually evil, though. https://t.co/9hNG3toi2C

— Jillian C. York (@jilliancyork) February 17, 2021

What angers me most is that *journalism* organizations had *no* shame and *no* transparency about their conflict of interest, cashing in their political capital to buy political favor and conspiracy to blackmail the tech companies. Journalism *never* reported its conflict.

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) February 17, 2021

Google just announced a deal with News Corp. I hate this. It means that media blackmail works. It sets a terrible precedent for the net. It gives Google yet more power over news. It is a win for the devil, Murdoch. I really hate that.

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) February 17, 2021

In the end, Google & Facebook have a big bucket of baksheesh that will go to old proprietors and their shareholders (not journalists; don't fool yourselves), keeping them around a little longer and keeping upstart competitors out of the market.

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) February 17, 2021

Wild. News Corp basically just muscled Facebook, then Google, into surrendering their magic-internet-everything-for-free position with some combination of lobbying, investigative reporting, Tucker Carlson attacks, Murdochian menace. https://t.co/fzf5EvZi2K

— Ben Smith (@benyt) February 17, 2021

Horrible.

Years of complaints that @google and @facebook refusing to pay news organizations for their content and the first (and likely the only) deal they strike is with the Murdochs of Fox News, allowing them further reach and more money to spread disinformation and racism. https://t.co/IDLolVP99S

— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) February 17, 2021

Sorry, couldn't hear you over concerns that the platforms and media are drowning out conservative voices. https://t.co/DL7m9GAhQP

— Josh Sternberg (@joshsternberg) February 17, 2021

Apple, too. Sources described to me the big Apple News / WSJ deal from a few years back as a "payoff to Rupert," plain and simple. https://t.co/cYFBtp5l8g

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) February 17, 2021

I will bet you that Google News Showcase traffic will be minimal. That's not the point. It's just an envelope stuffed with cash. Politicians were the bagmen.

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) February 17, 2021

Reminder, the Murdoch’s own roughly 70% of newspaper print circulation in Australia. The fact that this deal was brokered in the very final days leading up to the Australia media code passing says a lot about how the power pendulum has swung in the past few weeks/months. https://t.co/gW2EnASgWm

— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) February 17, 2021

News Corp and Google Agree To Global Partnership On News | (zero specifics though) https://t.co/Y5IFOuNaLe

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) February 17, 2021

? News Corp and Google Agree To Global Partnership On Newshttps://t.co/bzsJG4TfeS

— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) February 17, 2021

News Corp announced today that it has agreed to an historic multi-year partnership with Google to provide trusted journalism from its news sites around the world in return for significant payments by Google.

H/T ⁦@hays_ag⁩ https://t.co/FRzLoZVmzP

— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) February 17, 2021

Australia (competition approach, not #copyright), France (competition & copyright) & Germany (neither copyright nor competition) all had the same outcome for Google & big publishers. Great, can we stop wrecking the Internet for everyone else, now? https://t.co/uWuUTyrSts #linktax

— Julia Reda (@Senficon) February 17, 2021

and there it is - the global News Corp - Google deal as expected. Now...the AU law that drove this needs to pass next week and every nation (ahem EU, United States) where Google has abused competition needs to recognize what finally brought them to table. https://t.co/hOm3T8nnLU

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) February 17, 2021

Google money for #Murdoch: #NewsCorp and #Google Agree To Global Partnership On #News | https://t.co/2lAQQ8L9rd

— Paul Nemitz (@PaulNemitz) February 17, 2021

BREAKING: Search will never be the same as Google agrees to pay Newscorp for news. https://t.co/AovefxP9i6

— @amuse (@amuse) February 17, 2021

Murdoch ❤️ Google. Well, that‘s breaking news. https://t.co/xqYAQ5DVqc

— Gerold Riedmann (@gerold_rie) February 17, 2021

Incredible, yet true: Google and Rupert Murdoch have made peace (at least for three years). https://t.co/Dl43lq2ufB

— Laura Kayali (@LauKaya) February 17, 2021

Earlier this morning, News Corp and Google announced an historic multi-year partnership to provide trusted news from News Corp publications in exchange for significant payments by Google. https://t.co/3RKUY82hQX

— Jon Swartz (@jswartz) February 17, 2021

Google and News Corp strike a deal as Australia seeks to make platforms pay for news https://t.co/8A041XG5zF

— CNBC (@CNBC) February 17, 2021

2009: "We are in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content" (R. Murdoch)

2021: "News Corp [has] signed a three-year partnership with Alphabet Inc's Google to sell its news products for Google's curated news platform, Google News Showcase."https://t.co/NBDKhjlyJe

— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) February 17, 2021

Would really appreciate more in depth journalism about corporate conglomerate interests in journalism.

News Corp signs news partnership deal with Google https://t.co/v7lyCm8lXp

— Phillip Atiba Goff (@DrPhilGoff) February 17, 2021

Facebook won’t let users in Australia share news

Facebook and Google take different approaches to new law

Google licenses news from publishers#breakingnewshttps://t.co/FWd9yMeP9P

— Euro Maestro (@euromaestro) February 17, 2021

What?? You mean people in Australia will have to actually visit the news publisher’s website instead of just seeing whatever their friends post on Facebook??? The horror.https://t.co/RF8OFhlROl

— Hollie Pratt (@hollieprattcamp) February 17, 2021

Oz news no longer on FB as of this morning. #Facebook prohibited #Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content in response to Australia's proposed media bargaining laws?https://t.co/SZP1X3d6ld @jemimagar @burebasgal @Sasbites @MaclellanNic pic.twitter.com/etPtkXei6g

— Georgina Kekea (@ginakekea) February 17, 2021

Facebook will ban Australian users from sharing or viewing news https://t.co/ZdtQjX5c9j

— CNBC (@CNBC) February 17, 2021

Facebook bans all news for Australian users. News from Australian media outlets won't be visible to Facebook users overseas https://t.co/KoE0n0ZPX7

— Olivia Leeming (@olivialeeming) February 17, 2021

But China has too much control over the internethttps://t.co/v53fspNoLL

— Astronaut Cum Evangelist ?? (@yungparenti) February 17, 2021

Wow - here. A really, really great report on Google and Australia. Even corrects much of Google’s misleading lobbying. These are the benefits of having a bureau in Australia. AU is just ahead of US. as it rightly notes multi-year antitrust investigation. https://t.co/G2NOuYNo1V

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) February 17, 2021

Google bends to government and is paying for news in Australia. What about everywhere else?
A few weeks after Google threatened to leave Australia if forced to pay for news, it is striking deals with media companies worth tens of millions of dollars a year https://t.co/BnzGISzJjT

— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) February 17, 2021

"Media companies have complained for years that they are not fairly compensated for articles & other content that generate ad revenue...Google’s rush to pay up in Australia shows how regulation...can dramatically alter the behavior..."https://t.co/TPTzbOccsI

— @tiffanydcross (@TiffanyDCross) February 17, 2021

tip. If you think Sean Hannity works at News Corp or haven’t read ACCC’s multi year antitrust report, I suggest holding off on your hot take on Australia’s new law making news. Probably better to just link your users to great local reporting like this. https://t.co/G2NOuYNo1V

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) February 17, 2021

豪州で、近日中にメディアに対しテクノロジープラットフォームが支払いを強制する法案の成立を控え、Googleが、ついにWSJなどを傘下にする大手メディア企業News Corpらに対し、年間数千万ドル支払う個別合意に至ったとの報道｜https://t.co/cYeMxt3lNW

— 藤村厚夫 (@afujimura) February 17, 2021

"Google’s rush to pay up in Australia shows how regulation in a relatively small country — or just the threat of it — can dramatically alter the behavior of a global tech behemoth that grew with impunity back home in the United States" https://t.co/dJeinBg3iu #dkmedier #dkpol

— Stig Ørskov (@orskov) February 17, 2021

구글과 뉴스코퍼레이션이 3년간 제휴하여, 구글은 뉴스코퍼레이션이 제공하는 콘텐츠의 이용료로 수천만 달러를 지급하고, 양사가 공동으로 유료 뉴스 플랫폼을 개발하기로... https://t.co/OOYvVT3Aob

— H. Kim (@metavital) February 17, 2021

INBOX: News Corp announced today that it has agreed to an historic multi-year partnership with Google to provide trusted journalism from its news sites around the world in return for significant payments by Google. https://t.co/S3cxRiVXvb

— Kerry Flynn ? (@kerrymflynn) February 17, 2021

Is a pretty bonkers scenario to think about that Google is essentially forced to now pay News Corp because News Corp failed to successfully build a online car or job classifieds business and for bombing the MySpace opportunity. https://t.co/ROmdTvVZSJ

— Anthony Dever (@anthonydever) February 18, 2021

News Corp and Google agree to global partnership on news

The landmark agreement includes development of a subscription platform, sharing of ad revenue, cultivation of audio journalism and meaningful investments in innovative video journalism by YouTubehttps://t.co/GK829iVkW4

— Anthony DeRosa ? (@Anthony) February 17, 2021

This will be a very annoying piece and timing of news for Australian media correspondents who have sensibly gone to bed already https://t.co/E6X8ys7TCT

— John B (@johnb78) February 17, 2021

In USA @Facebook is placing ads begging for updated regulations. Australia regulated and Facebook retaliated by disallowing any news to be shared. When they laud "regulation" FB means something of its own design that regulators don't get their hands on. https://t.co/Y4mADWWIvH

— Suzanne Nossel (@SuzanneNossel) February 17, 2021

You can be sure FB wouldn't have dropped all Aus news if there were data (i.e. social graph) portability. My bet: this works out badly for them, either via a quick policy reversal, further regulation, and/or future competition (possibly all three). https://t.co/4adK5x91Ap

— Gregory Crawford (@GregorySCrawfor) February 18, 2021

Facebook will ban Australian users from sharing or viewing newshttps://t.co/guBj6o98K6 cc @Poulin2012

— K. (@kled) February 17, 2021

Facebook will no longer allow publishers and users in Australia to share or view news articles in response to a new proposed media law in the country.https://t.co/LRdCa8C5nr

— CNBC-TV18 (@CNBCTV18Live) February 18, 2021

Who does Fuckerburg think he is to ban a nation?
Stop this arse looking Nazi Fuckerburg! #FacebookAustralia https://t.co/CL51cGOMuy

— Potkin Azarmehr (@potkazar) February 17, 2021

Ok just catching up on this. tl;dr, Australia wants platforms (Google, Facebook, etc) to pay publishers (esp. local) for displaying or linking to news content. Facebook's response? All AUS facebook users are banned from sharing or viewing news articles.https://t.co/qLEimkFOF1

— Chappell Ellison (@ChappellTracker) February 17, 2021

That shuffling sound you hear? Maybe it is publishers around ? hiring lobbyists:"Google’s rush to pay up in Australia shows how regulation in a relatively small country — or just the threat of it — can sharply alter the behavior of a global tech behemoth" https://t.co/OwqHVRFzms

— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) February 18, 2021

Australia’s proposed regulations to make @Google pay for news are a huge step in the right direction. Journalism seems to have fewer friends in the halls of power in the US, says @damiencave of @nytimes. The US needs to step up and follow Australia’s lead. https://t.co/0ahFbhHF3v

— nickcharles61 (@nickcharles61) February 17, 2021