Rupert Murdoch says social media should pay for the news it republishes
The Chairman of News Corp – Rupert Murdoch – has issued a public statement calling for publishers to be paid along similar lines to the carriage free one used by cablecos.
The statement seems to have been prompted by the tweaks Facebook has been making to its ‘news feed’ especially its recent move to grade how trustworthy a given news source is. Perhaps panicked by the implications for his polarising Fox News network, Murdoch expressed reservations about the plan, while s
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