Google to let AAP FactCheck deal expire
Google will no longer finance real control in Australia, and the technology company will choose to renew its partnership with the actual control team of the Australian Associated Press (AAP).
Google is participating in the withdrawal of Meta from the withdrawal of financing control in Australia, and the social media company established by Mark Zuckerberg is expected to allow its contracts with publishers to end in the beginning of next year.
These decisions are signing new agreements with publishers under the threat of a proposal of the Australian government in the midst of a US -led political reaction. News bargaining encouragement.
Emma Cowdroy, CEO of AAP AAP, reiterated Google’s partnership with Wire Service’s real control team, but it was a “strong relationship with Google”.
“AAP is one of a private company [not-for-profit]/charity, Cow Cowdroy said Crirase.
This decision said that “some” personnel will either finish or end soon.
A Google spokesman told Crirase The support he gave to AAP Factcheck was always “project -based”.
“We think that AAP is a long -term and valuable partner in areas such as verification, news room innovation, cloud -based digital transformation and editorial education. The nature of any partnership will develop over time and we hope to establish a partnership with AAP in the coming years.
Google recently announced AAP’s partnership with Factcheck Program In 2024And since its establishment in 2019, it has been supporting the team.
Apart from real control, Google’s Signed opportunities Recently with Australian publishers (Included CriraseSquiz with ‘s Mother Company, Private Media) and E -POSTA AND PODCAST COMPANY to develop A child -oriented digital literacy program.
Crirase Earlier this year, Meta’s support for AAP Factcheck, although Zuckerberg’s real control program rejected a high -profile rejection, was arranged in a way that continued until the beginning of 2026. However, industry sources expect that this agreement will not be renewed.
Since the rise of real control in the 2010s, this journalism sub -type has become the target of populist and conservative politicians in the world that equalizes it with censorship.
Australia’s real control sales points were beaten by the increasing politicization of the industry. RMIT’s joint effort with ABC-RMIT ABC Fact Check ended by the public publisher last year, and later launched the ABC New Verify team, which focuses more on open source research rather than traditional real-controls.
RMIT FACTLAB, another unit of RMIT, has stopped doing real controls since then.
Apart from the AAP, the other special real control team covering Australia Agent France-Presse (It has published only three real controls in the last two months).
Cowdroy said that AAP will follow other ways to generate revenue for the AAP Factcheck team.
“I think there is actually a public service and we will continue to look for ways to finance it,” he said.
