We signalled to the government well in advance of removing news from our platforms that this was going to be the impact. We said, “Look, there's going to be a disproportionately negative impact on smaller digital-first publications. We would like to avoid that. We think the value transfer flows the other way. We are providing great value to publishers. Please don't scope us into the bill so that we have to remove news.”
On October 24th, 2024. See this statement in context.