The National Archives reports that NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News, has reached a three-year deal with Google to profit from the Internet giant that facilitates censorship by the Chinese Communist Party.
NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News, has reached a broad three-year agreement with Internet giant Google to provide news content from several of its heavyweight news organizations, the report said.
NewsCorp will provide content from its premium content providers, including U.S. entities The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, as well as The Times and The Sun in the U.K., and The Australian and Sky News in the U.K., the announcement showed.
News Corp’s deal with Google covers audio and video products. News Corp. will also get a share of the advertising revenue generated by AdSense, where Google dominates the market.
Australian lawmakers believe big tech giants such as Facebook and Google are profiting from the journalistic efforts of outside news organizations without paying for content that attracts users.
News Corp.’s content partnership with Google comes after the Australian government introduced legislation that introduced a framework for binding negotiations between Australian news organizations and organizations such as Google, Twitter and Facebook. In response to the Australian legislation, Facebook banned Australians from reading news on its platform.
The News Media Bargaining Code law, introduced in July, gives eligible news organizations and social media giants three months to negotiate. If negotiations stall, the legislation provides for the matter to be referred to an independent arbitrator.
The arbitrator – like binding arbitration in U.S. baseball – would have the power to force an agreement, meaning both sides would submit their best offers and an independent arbitrator would select one.
Recently, Facebook took a more confrontational approach to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Act, prohibiting Australian users of its platform from viewing news content that originates outside of Facebook Inc.
Calling Facebook’s decision “arrogant,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned that he is in constant dialogue with world leaders who are ready to take regulatory action against the presence of overbearing big tech companies.
“Facebook’s actions today to cancel Australia’s friendly relations and cut off essential information services for health and emergency services are both arrogant and disappointing,” Morrison said in a statement.
“These actions only confirm the concerns expressed by a growing number of countries about the behavior of big tech companies, which believe they are bigger than governments and that the rules shouldn’t apply to them,” he said.
“They may be changing the world, but that doesn’t mean it’s up to them to control it,” he added.
Commenting on the News Corp-Google deal, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson said the agreement will “have a positive impact on journalism around the world because we have firmly believed that there should be a premium on quality journalism.
“I want to thank Sundar Pichai and his team at Google for demonstrating a thoughtful commitment to journalism that will resonate in every country,” Thomson said in a statement Wednesday.
Google has come under increasing criticism for kneeling to the will of the Communist Party’s Beijing leadership over the issue of open, blatant censorship.
In 2018, it was revealed that Google had created a version of its search engine specifically for use in China. The build would censor content according to the will of the Communist Party leadership.
Google assigned a select group of engineers to work on the project. It is codenamed “Dragonfly”.
Several senior and mid-level Google employees noted that they were concerned about the project, fearing that it would allow the Communist government to further control and oppress the people. Several of these employees have resigned.
The Chinese Communist government has recently come under intense international pressure for exposing their genocide of the Uighurs in Xinjiang province.
According to reports – and eyewitness testimony from survivors – the CCP government has established re-Education camps in Xinjiang.
Guards at the slavery production facilities reportedly routinely gang-raped Uighur and Kazakh women prisoners, sometimes sexually abusing them with electric batons.
Spokespersons for News Corp. and Google could not be reached for comment on how their “news” programs are reporting on the ongoing genocide.
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