DAP leader: Consider forcing Google and FB to pay media outlets

Published: Apr 22, 2020 9:38 AM | Updated: Apr 25, 2022 2:19 AM

Liew Chin Tong has called on the government to consider emulating Australia to compel Google and Facebook to pay media outlets for news content.

“We should make Google and Facebook pay so that independent media outlets (not paid for by the public purse or big commercial interests) can produce great content for the society with sustained sources of income.

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