{"id":24780,"date":"2026-09-09T07:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/trump-administration-to-confront-australia-over-labors-social-media-algorithm-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:37:59","slug":"trump-administration-to-confront-australia-over-labors-social-media-algorithm-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/trump-administration-to-confront-australia-over-labors-social-media-algorithm-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration to confront Australia over Labor\u2019s social media algorithm plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House warns trading partners against \u2018imposing digital services taxes, fines, and other forms of extortion\u2019 on US tech sector<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2026\/sep\/09\/coalition-victoria-energy-bills-labor-one-nation-super-digital-duty-of-care-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">new political email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Trump administration will confront Australia over its plan to force digital platforms to take down harmful content and let users opt out of algorithm-generated \u201cfor you\u201d feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Big tech companies would be fined more than $100m for breaching the proposed laws and the Australian government is under pressure to raise those fines even further.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/sep\/09\/trump-administration-to-confront-australia-over-labors-social-media-algorithm-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a463711c2e677201c1f75b36b920b592f3c3a7d8\/0_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b23b24316c0dc7cc074ae1687a411613\" title=\"Trump administration to confront Australia over Labor\u2019s social media algorithm plan\" \/>White House warns trading partners against \u2018imposing digital services taxes, fines, and other forms of extortion\u2019 on US tech sector<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration will confront Australia over its plan to force digital platforms to take down harmful content and let users opt out of algorithm-generated \u201cfor you\u201d feeds.<br \/>\nBig tech companies would be fined more than $100m for breaching the proposed laws and the Australian government is under pressure to raise those fines even further. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House warns trading partners against \u2018imposing digital services taxes, fines, and other forms of extortion\u2019 on US tech sector Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The Trump administration will confront Australia over its plan to force digital platforms to take &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/trump-administration-to-confront-australia-over-labors-social-media-algorithm-plan\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump administration to confront Australia over Labor\u2019s social media algorithm plan<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}