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This year, the Australian Government has begun a crusade against big technology and its relationship with the conventional media. A crusade that has put large platforms such as Facebook or Google in the position of paying – or not – the main editorial groups if links to their articles are included on said platforms. Although this may not be the desired solution for the future of journalism , the truth is that Facebook made a drastic decision a few days ago: it prohibits links to Australian media on the popular social network. The controversy between the Australian Government and large technology companies does not end there, since the jump to the European Union may be made: several MEPs would consider including terms similar to those of the new Australian regulation in the legislation of the Old Continent.
Innovation would not be possible without data": former minister Pilar del Castillo, one of the MEPs who lead the regulation of AI, asks to use it with "respect for privacy and security" The crusade does not stop there either and as a result of this intense legal battle, the Australian Government has just obtained from the DIGI consortium - which represents, among others, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, TikTok and Redbubble in the oceanic country - a new code of conduct. As detailed by the AFP Europe Cell Phone Number List agency , under this new code of conduct the platforms commit to combating fake news and illicit content on the internet more effectively. The agreement comes after the Australian Government's Health Department announced that it would stop advertising on Facebook just at a time when the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus pandemic has begun in that country.
Salaried 'Riders', self-employed and falsely self-employed: these are their working conditions, according to the delivery drivers themselves "All signatories commit to safeguarding and protecting Australians from the harm caused by online misinformation, and to adopt a series of scalable measures that reduce its virality and visibility," details this new agreement of some 29 pages that has had AFP access . This is a voluntary agreement that comes from the technology companies themselves in response to the increasingly intense scrutiny to which the Australian Executive itself subjects them. Some of the measures contemplated in this new agreement include the possibility of eliminating or suspending fake accounts, bots, as well as prioritizing information from official sources within the platforms. Nerida O'Loughlin is the president of the Australian Communications and Media Authority, the ACMA, and has welcomed this new code of conduct: "It is a flexible and proportionate approach " to the problem posed by fake news , he assured.