Antigone Davis, global head of safety at Meta, will face lawmakers as Labor nears a decision on whether to designate the company under the news media bargaining code.
Meta has called in a global executive to front a parliamentary committee focused on its move to end news deals, as Labor nears a decision on whether to pull the trigger on designating the company under the news media bargaining code.
Antigone Davis, vice president and global head of safety at Meta, and regional policy head Mia Garlick will kick off the committee’s Friday hearings, offering Meta’s most anticipated public commentary on Australian laws in years.
The joint select committee on social media and Australian society is scrutinising Meta’s March decision to abandon lucrative deals made in 2021 with 13 news publishers under the threat of regulation by the code.
Meta argues that news makes up just 3% of what users see on their feeds, and that publishers have been “misled” into “thinking they are entitled” to payment for using the company’s services to build their own audiences. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The federal government is finalising its decision on whether to designate Meta under the code, which would potentially force the company into an arbitration process with news publishers and impose steep fines if it failed to comply.
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