Google is going all out in the fight against regulation by publishing an open letter encouraging users of Google and Youtube to seemingly defend democracy itself against the tide of government regulation.

We’re joined by Belinda Barnet – Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications from Swinburne University of Technology – to demystify these claims and explain what the News Media Bargaining Code is actually trying to do.

Also this episode:

• Facebook is refusing to release information about its role in the genocide against the Rohingya people
• Plandemic 2 drops but barely makes a splash. This Politifact article covers the context and misinformation of the Plandemic franchise.

For more of Belinda’s work, see her article in The Conversation: Google’s ‘open letter’ is trying to scare Australians. The company simply doesn’t want to pay for news