Australia Passes Law Forcing Facebook, Google to Pay for News
- World-first code will address power imbalance, government says
- Digital giants may face similar action from global regulators
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Australia’s parliament passed a world-first law to force digital giants such as Facebook Inc. and Google pay local publishers for news content -- a move that may unleash more global regulatory action to limit their power.