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Top Meta managers meet Australian officials over media-bargaining concerns

By James Panichi ( April 15, 2025, 04:26 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms sent two of its top Asia-Pacific managers to meet with key Australian competition officials in February to discuss the government’s controversial new policy to force digital platforms to reach agreements with media publishers for the use of news. Documents released under Australia’s freedom-of-information laws reveal that Mia Garlick, Meta’s director of policy for Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, and Cheryl Seeto, Meta’s head of policy for Australia, met with Treasury Department officials Tony McDonald and Aidan Storer.Meta Platforms sent two of its top Asia-Pacific managers to meet with key Australian competition officials in February to discuss the government’s controversial new policy to force digital platforms to reach agreements with media publishers for the use of news....

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