{"id":460869,"date":"2026-06-04T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460869\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:23:21","slug":"meta-slams-australias-bid-to-make-tech-giants-pay-for-sharing-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460869\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta slams Australia\u2019s bid to make tech giants pay for sharing news articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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3 Jun, 2026 11:36 PM2 mins to read<\/p>\n

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Meta faces a compulsory levy that will amount to 2.25% of their Australian revenue.<\/p>\n

Tech giant Meta has attacked Australia\u2019s \u201cgrossly unfair\u201d bid to make social media companies pay for news, saying it is vehemently opposed to the draft laws.<\/p>\n

Australia wants big tech companies to compensate local publishers for sharing articles that drive traffic on their platforms.<\/p>\n

\n Meta, the parent company of Facebook
\n and Instagram, said in a statement: \u201cOur position is clear: this law is poorly designed, grossly unfair, and will fail to deliver a diverse and sustainable news industry.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are vehemently opposed to this legislation. It is discriminatory, economically incoherent, and will not deliver the sustainable news sector that Australian journalists and audiences deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Social media companies including Meta, Google and TikTok will first be given a chance to strike content deals with local news publishers. If they refuse, they face a compulsory levy that will amount to 2.25% of their Australian revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 3 Jun, 2026 11:36 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4721,1344,24812,1040,138,8556,126534,2082,13313,2734,201843,12472,5812,1073,898,111,43,139,69,125064,2744,2687,13660,19993,1072,370,61,35967,208938],"class_list":["post-460869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-articles","tag-attacked","tag-australias","tag-bid","tag-business","tag-companies","tag-draft","tag-for","tag-giant","tag-giants","tag-grossly","tag-laws","tag-make","tag-media","tag-meta","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opposed","tag-pay","tag-saying","tag-sharing","tag-slams","tag-social","tag-tech","tag-to","tag-unfair","tag-vehemently"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}