"There have been a host of attempts to justify these kinds of payments, including a somewhat farcical paper from the News Media Alliance in 2019, which used an offhand comment by a Google exec years earlier to conclude that Google makes $5 billion a year from news links."
"Contrary to some of the public perceptions of this law, it didn't compel the platforms to pay publishers directly or lay out specific terms - instead, it said that if the platforms didn't cut funding agreements with news outlets, then the government would step in and impose its own."
"Faced with that prospect, both Google and Meta signed a blizzard of deals with news outlets in Australia, as my former Columbia Journalism colleague Bill Grueskin detailed in a feature for the magazine in 2022."
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