By Shawn Lim

As Australia gets ready to introduce a mandatory code of conduct for tech platforms Facebook and Google, the latter has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia.

Originally due to be finalised by November 2020, the code, introduced by competition watchdog Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), was to require the digital ad giants to negotiate in good faith on how to pay news media for use of their content, to advise news media in advance of algorithm changes that would affect content rankings, to favour original source news content in search page results and to share data with media Read full story ›

Source: The Drum