Google has threatened to pull its search engine from Australia and Facebook has threatened to pull news from its Australian feeds if a code forcing the companies to negotiate payments to big news media companies becomes law.
More than 19 million Australians use Google services every month would no longer be able to and 17 Million Facebook users would see news disappear from their news feed.
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