What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

Every Friday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in.

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Australia’s Kinda-Sorta Win Over Big Tech


Over the last year, the Australian government has been waging a quiet war against Facebook and Google. Through a new law, it plans to force the big tech companies to pay news outlets in exchange for linking to their sites.


Will this new law have the intended effect? Or will it set a dangerous precedent that cedes even more power over to the tech giants?


Guest: 


JR Hennessy, editor at Business Insider Australia


Host

Lizzie O’Leary

 

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 February 26, 2021  23m