Happy Friday. It's Rachel. So today in Tech News, it looks like Australia has officially unveiled their plan to have Google and and Facebook pay for news. So what do you think about this? Should tech Giants have to pay news outlets for their content? Why or why not linking the article poll from the BBC that I read this morning here, if you want to read more, if you already have read about this and have an opinion or question, I would love to hear it
So I want to understand what exactly the complaint is about. If you look at Google News, for example, if you click on USA Today article that you find and it takes you to USA Today and their ads being served out from USA Today on that page. So USA Today is definitely benefiting from all the traffic that Google News is sending to them. So I would expect for most media organizations is a net positive of getting more traffic, more eyeballs to their content
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 1:36
So again, I really don't know what the complaint is. But if I had to guess, I think it would be along the lines of social media as opposed to Google News. And you're right, though, this will have far reaching consequences with how this plays out, because this is a great experiment, right? They'll see how this plays out. And based on that, it might spread out to the rest of the world
The Daily Swell
@daily · 1:40
So I did a little more reading and from what I can see, it seems like it's mostly about ad revenue, since often when a user shares a news article to Facebook, the creator of that content that is the newspapers, generally speaking, are not getting their fair share of the profits and the ad revenue