[nexa] Why Google caved to Australia, and Facebook didn’t

Very interesting story from several points of view. 1. Big Tech are quite sensible to ad revenues, here it’s where regulations need to hit 2. Machine learning can fail, even in BigTech 3. A healthier system would be one where users pay for the content directly 4. The deal with Google will eventually ruin the newspapers, rather than save them “But what if, in the meantime, Australians simply… visit websites? Subscribe to newsletters? Read… books? I realize I sound hopelessly naive here. But if this is the beginning of more people coming to understand the value in visiting trusted news sources directly, I think we’d all be better off. Publishers included!” https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/18/22288510/google-facebook-australia-news-m...