{
  "id": 2109077,
  "title": "Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/australia-passes-law-to-levy-tech-giants-that-fail-to-pay-for-local-2109077",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-20T08:49:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/australia-passes-law-to-levy-tech-giants-that-fail-to-pay-for-local-news/articleshow/133371548.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The levy applies to Meta, Alphabet's Google, TikTok and Microsoft's LinkedIn, covering companies with a \"significant\" social media or search service in Australia, and local advertising revenue exceeding A$250 million ($178 million). Platforms can avoid the charge by reaching agreements with at least eight different publishersby the end of their reporting period. The value of those deals would be…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}