{"id":1005574,"date":"2026-04-29T09:16:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005574"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:53:39","slug":"australia-moves-to-tax-meta-google-and-tiktok-to-fund-newsrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/australia-moves-to-tax-meta-google-and-tiktok-to-fund-newsrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters. <\/p>\n<p>The government released draft legislation Tuesday it intends to introduce to Parliament by July 2 that would create a financial incentive for the social media companies to strike deals with news organisations to pay for journalism. <\/p>\n<p>The platforms&#8217; criticisms included that the proposal was a &#8220;digital services tax&#8221; that misunderstood the evolving advertising industry and would fail to deliver a sustainable news sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government released draft legislation Tuesday it intends to introduce to Parliament by July 2 that would create a financial incentive for the social media companies to strike deals with news organisations to pay for journalism. The platforms&#8217; criticisms included that the proposal was a &#8220;digital services tax&#8221; that misunderstood the evolving advertising industry and would fail to deliver a sustainable news sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}