Google, TikTok, and Meta could be taxed by Australia to fund its newsrooms

# Australia Wants to Tax Big Tech Companies to Pay for News Australia is proposing to tax Meta, Google, and TikTok on their profits to fund newsrooms and journalists, arguing that these platforms profit from news content without properly compensating the reporters who create it. The government says healthy democracy depends on having funded journalism, and that tech companies shouldn't be able to use journalists' work for free to make money. This is Australia's second attempt to force these platforms to pay for news—the first law in 2021 worked, getting the companies to voluntarily negotiate payments with news organizations.