The government should “compel” Meta to the table and make them recommit to carrying Australian news, a Facebook whistleblower has declared.
A Facebook whistleblower says Australia should force Meta to the negotiating table amid ongoing uncertainty about the future of news online.
Frances Haugen called on the government to ‘compel’ Meta to the negotiating table, and enhance their online safety laws. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin OllmanMs Haugen called on the government to compel the company to the negotiating table. But earlier this month, ahead of the deals beginning to expire, the company declared it would not renegotiate any of those agreements – a move which some consider a breach of the news media bargaining code and a contravention of competition laws.
She said Australia needed to pass modern online harms laws, outlining the ‘critical role’ it could play. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman “In a world where you have very large language models that can make fake news sites very convincing … it’s very surreal to me and we need to have a conversation about it,” she said.Ms Haugen spoke on esafety and AI. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
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