ABC and SBS added to Mandatory News Code 

• The ABC and SBS have been included in the draft code of the federal government’s bill that seeks to force Google and Facebook to pay news publishers for their content
• Labor, the Greens and several crossbenchers suggested the public broadcasters should be added to the ranks of Australian news publishers to benefit from the code
• If passed, the legislation would force Google and Facebook to share revenue from news links with news publishers or pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.
• Google was quick to create a new video of that woman on the bus explaining why the code was a bad idea… 
• Facebook has maintained a public silence since announcing on 1 September it would block Australians from sharing news, but is understood to be in confidential negotiations with the government. 
• BUT they are advertising for a Digital News Curator - suggesting they still expect to have news to curate. “Curate credible news and video content from a diverse set of publishers, broadcasters, public figures, and influencers, covering a wide range of subject areas, including news, health, entertainment and sports” 
•  https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2304152225/  

OANN suspended from YouTube after promoting a sham cure for Covid-19

• YouTube has suspended the conservative news outlet One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and from making money off of its existing videos after it promoted a sham cure for Covid-19.
• The video was removed under YouTube’s policies to prevent the spread of Covid-19 misinformation, which prohibit saying there is a guaranteed cure to the virus. 
• OANN has been suspended for “repeated violations” of this policy, said a YouTube spokeswoman, Ivy Choi.
• OANN has had remarkable growth following the US election, as many Trump voters and Trump himself accused Fox of costing him the election 
• In the Trump orbit, Fox News has become too left leaning… 

Salesforce to Buy Slack? 

• According to the Wall Street Journal, Salesforce is in “advanced stages” to buy  Slack, the wildly popular workplace collaboration tool 
• The companies could reach a deal within days—in time for Salesforce to report its third-quarter financial results on Tuesday
• Slack is currently valued at 17 billion, and resisted selling to Microsoft four years ago. Microsoft went on to make Teams, a Slack-like competitor. 
• With Microsoft out of the bidding, and Apple not interested, Salesforce could be the only company with both the cash on hand and the reason to purchase Slack 
• While Slack has the name recognition of Zoom during lockdown, its stock has only modestly improved, while other remote work tools around it have skyrocketed 
• This might suggest that Slack has exhausted its pool of paying customers 
• The size of the deal could be massive, as Salesforce is happy to open its wallet. They bought Tableau for $15 billion and Mulesoft for $6.5 billion. Slack would be Salesforce’s biggest ever...
  

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