Meta’s beef with news

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Meta, the mega US company that owns Facebook and Instagram, recently announced it would not re-sign deals with some Aussie news publishers. That sets in motion a possible chain of events that could change a lot for our media industry - and you as a news consumer.

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To answer the question of what’s going on here and how it could affect publishers, we have an opinion piece in The Australian by Tim Duggan, the chair of the Digital Publishers Alliance.

A podcast from Future Media by tech/media insider Ricky Sutton. Let’s just say he has some “tough truths” he reckons Australia’s publishers need to hear…

A look more widely at how Meta is looking at news content is picked up in this New York Times article