Aus PM seeks India’s support in FB face-off
NEW DELHI: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has reached out to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for support in his fight against Facebook over a proposed law that aims to make the social media giant pay for sharing content from media organisations.
The matter figured in a phone call between Morrison and Modi on Thursday, amid worldwide outrage over Facebook blacking out news and media content for its users in Australia and barring them from sharing news articles.
Morrison said in a tweet on Friday he and his “good friend” Modi “discussed progress of our [Australia’s] media platform bill” but didn’t give details. He said India and Australia, as
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comprehensive strategic partners, can work together on common challenges such as Covid-19, the circular economy and an open, secure and prosperous Indo-pacific.
Morrison also told the media
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Great to talk to my good friend PM @narendramodi again... We also discussed progress
our media platform bill
in Sydney on Friday that the law figured in his call with Modi. “There’s a lot of interest in it. People are looking at what Australia doing,” he said.
There was no official word