News Corp leads charge against tech giants in Australia probe


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 03 May 2018

Pedestrians pass in front of a News Corp. signage displayed outside Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. headquarters in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 7. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

SYDNEY: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation accused Facebook and Google of “anti-competitive practices” in one of dozens of submissions to a probe of the tech giants released Thursday by Australia’s competition watchdog. 

A total of 57 media companies, advertisers and journalist groups put forward their cases for changes in the operations of the internet titans, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) reported. 

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