Google to pay $60M for misleading representations
Australia has had a thing against Google.<p>In Australia, News Corp (Rubert Murdoch) dominates the media landscape.[0] They have the power to dictate who wins elections and who loses. Thus, politicians bend to News Corp will.<p>One of the results of this dynamic is that politicians forced Google to start paying News Corp to show news links in Google News in Australia but not anywhere else in the world.[1]<p>[0] <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-14/fact-file-rupert-murdoch-media-reach-in-australia/100056660" rel="nofollow">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-14/fact-file-rupert-murd...</a><p>[1]<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/17/news-corp-agrees-deal-with-google-over-payments-for-journalism" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/17/news-corp-agre...</a>