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February 22, 2021 European publishers and Microsoft today announced an agreement to work together on a proposal that guarantees payment by the large online platforms - gatekeepers - for the use of content placed online in the form of links or snippets, for example. of the law under discussion in Australia.



Microsoft and European media groups urged EU regulators to require online platforms to establish arbitration to decide how to share revenues with news publishers, a pivotal point in the

confrontation between Facebook and the Australian government.

and argue that copyright rules, EU magazines of 2019, force Google and other online platforms to sign separate licensing agreements with musicians, authors and news publishers to use their work, but these agreements are not enough.



In recent days, Facebook has blocked any kind of sharing of journalistic information in Australia, to protest against the bill that requires online platforms to make agreements with publishers to remunerate links for content or to agree on a price through arbitration.



The appeal from Microsoft, European Magazine Media Association, European Newspaper Publishers Association, EuropeanPublishers Council and News Media Europe comes as Brussels regulators prepare for rules discussions to stem the enormous power of the tech giants.



Meanwhile, in view of the approval of the Australian law, technology giants, including Facebook and Google, but also Twitter, Microsoft,


TikTok and Redbubble, have released the final version of an industrial code of 'best practices' to counter the spread of false information on the Internet, which is committed to countering disinformation, including reporting fake news on platforms and prioritizing news sources as well as suspending or deactivating fake accounts and suspicious accounts, including paid advertising and shared content by users