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Rod Sims on making Google and Facebook pay for news

FT, 10 Jun 2021
The chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman explains how he took on Google and Facebook, addressing a clear imbalance of bargaining power and market failure, and made them pay for news that they were using from media companies.

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