{"id":8804,"date":"2024-04-30T06:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T06:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/australia-urged-to-impose-big-tech-tax-to-fund-trusted-media-and-fight-disinformation\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T06:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T06:02:02","slug":"australia-urged-to-impose-big-tech-tax-to-fund-trusted-media-and-fight-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/australia-urged-to-impose-big-tech-tax-to-fund-trusted-media-and-fight-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia urged to impose big tech tax to fund trusted media and fight disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinktank casts \u2018deterioration of the information environment\u2019 as a foreign policy priority and a threat to social cohesion<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2024\/apr\/30\/australia-news-live-domestic-violence-bhp-brazil-dam-brisbane-quantum-computer-labor-albanese-liberal-vic-nsw-qld-sydney-melbourne-brisbane\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia has been urged to hit big tech companies with a new digital platform tax to fund trusted news media in order to confront the \u201crising tide of misinformation and disinformation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s defence budget \u201ccommits billions to buffer against military threats\u201d but the country is \u201cunprepared to fend off malicious actors looking for any chance to wage information warfare\u201d, according to the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy &amp; Defence Dialogue (AP4D) thinktank.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/apr\/30\/australia-urged-to-impose-big-tech-tax-to-fund-trusted-media-and-fight-disinformation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinktank casts \u2018deterioration of the information environment\u2019 as a foreign policy priority and a threat to social cohesion Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Australia has been urged to hit big tech companies with a new digital platform tax to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}