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The ABC and SBS have been included in the draft code of the federal government’s bill that seeks to force Google and Facebook to pay news publishers for their content
Labor, the Greens and several crossbenchers suggested the public broadcasters should be added to the ranks of Australian news publishers to benefit from the code
If passed, the legislation would force Google and Facebook to share revenue from news links with news publishers or pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.
Google was quick to create a new video of that woman on the bus explaining why the code was a bad idea…
Facebook has maintained a public silence since announcing on 1 September it would block Australians from sharing news, but is understood to be in confidential negotiations with the government.
BUT they are advertising for a Digital News Curator - suggesting they still expect to have news to curate. “Curate credible news and video content from a diverse set of publishers, broadcasters, public figures, and influencers, covering a wide range of subject areas, including news, health, entertainment and sports”
YouTube has suspended the conservative news outlet One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and from making money off of its existing videos after it promoted a sham cure for Covid-19.
The video was removed under YouTube’s policies to prevent the spread of Covid-19 misinformation, which prohibit saying there is a guaranteed cure to the virus.
OANN has been suspended for “repeated violations” of this policy, said a YouTube spokeswoman, Ivy Choi.
OANN has had remarkable growth following the US election, as many Trump voters and Trump himself accused Fox of costing him the election
In the Trump orbit, Fox News has become too left leaning…
According to the Wall Street Journal, Salesforce is in “advanced stages” to buy Slack, the wildly popular workplace collaboration tool
The companies could reach a deal within days—in time for Salesforce to report its third-quarter financial results on Tuesday
Slack is currently valued at 17 billion, and resisted selling to Microsoft four years ago. Microsoft went on to make Teams, a Slack-like competitor.
With Microsoft out of the bidding, and Apple not interested, Salesforce could be the only company with both the cash on hand and the reason to purchase Slack
While Slack has the name recognition of Zoom during lockdown, its stock has only modestly improved, while other remote work tools around it have skyrocketed
This might suggest that Slack has exhausted its pool of paying customers
The size of the deal could be massive, as Salesforce is happy to open its wallet. They bought Tableau for $15 billion and Mulesoft for $6.5 billion. Slack would be Salesforce’s biggest ever...","author_name":"Peter Wells"}