{"id":73064,"date":"2026-05-04T22:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/big-tech-wants-to-punish-australia-over-albaneses-media-bargaining-code-and-trump-might-be-inclined-to-listen-bruce-wolpe\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:54:47","slug":"big-tech-wants-to-punish-australia-over-albaneses-media-bargaining-code-and-trump-might-be-inclined-to-listen-bruce-wolpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/big-tech-wants-to-punish-australia-over-albaneses-media-bargaining-code-and-trump-might-be-inclined-to-listen-bruce-wolpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Big tech wants to punish Australia over Albanese\u2019s media bargaining code \u2013 and Trump might be inclined to listen | Bruce Wolpe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s contempt for the media is explosive and his \u2018disappointment\u2019 with Australia apparent. For Meta, Google and Oracle, it\u2019s a powerful combination<\/p>\n<p>The fallout of the Albanese government\u2019s proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pm.gov.au\/media\/consultation-news-bargaining-incentive-now-open\">News Bargaining Incentive<\/a> feels predictable. The tech oligarchs will likely urge Donald Trump to punish Australia for the government\u2019s efforts to protect publishers from the financial harm caused by the big tech platforms\u2019 use of news content from established media companies.<\/p>\n<p>It is the same playbook used by the big US pharmaceutical companies to fight back against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/03\/australia-says-it-wont-raise-drug-prices-after-trumps-100-tariff-on-pharmaceuticals-imported-into-us\">Australia\u2019s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme<\/a> and similar programs in other countries. Australia has so far dodged much of Trump\u2019s tariffs on medicines, but Trumps\u2019 desire to punish US trade partners is unwavering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/may\/05\/big-tech-wants-to-punish-australia-over-albaneses-media-bargaining-code-and-trump-might-be-inclined-to-listen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s contempt for the media is explosive and his \u2018disappointment\u2019 with Australia apparent. For Meta, Google and Oracle, it\u2019s a powerful combination The fallout of the Albanese government\u2019s proposed News Bargaining Incentive feels predictable. The tech oligarchs will likely urge Donald Trump to punish Australia for the government\u2019s efforts to protect publishers from the &#8230; <a title=\"Big tech wants to punish Australia over Albanese\u2019s media bargaining code \u2013 and Trump might be inclined to listen | Bruce Wolpe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/big-tech-wants-to-punish-australia-over-albaneses-media-bargaining-code-and-trump-might-be-inclined-to-listen-bruce-wolpe\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Big tech wants to punish Australia over Albanese\u2019s media bargaining code \u2013 and Trump might be inclined to listen | Bruce Wolpe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}