Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai get back on the phone to Australian for more pay-for-news talks

Compulsory arbitration code clears committee without amendments, but cracks show as one major local signs big Google deal

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai have again spoken to Australian treasurer Josh Frydenberg about the nation’s plan to force the two tech giants into compulsory arbitration to pay local publishers for news content shared or indexed on their platforms. Frydenberg added that he believes the two companies are close to doing deals to pay local publishers.…

from The Register