Big Tech vs News Media Bargaining Power Battle

Professor Bradley Freeman, Associate Dean of Education, School of Arts, Sunway University

Morning Run · Top Story · 12 Jul 2023 · 07:45 am · 11 mins listen

The Malaysian government is reporterdly looking into laws that would compel tech giants like Meta and Google to pay local media companies for news content. Australia pioneered this arrangement in 2021 while Canada recently followed suit last month. Prof. Bradley Freeman of Sunway University shares with us the case for this type of legislation.

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Produced by:

Moh Heng Ying

Presented by:

Shazana Mokhtar,Wong Shou Ning,Mark Tan

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technology,government,controversies

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government laws,media companies,tech giants,remunerations

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