Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has launched a scorching attack on the Albanese government’s plan to force the world’s largest technology companies to fund Australian journalism

A plan to force Meta, Google and TikTok into compensating Australian media companies has drawn the unfiltered ire of Mark Zuckerberg’s $2.1 trillion giant.

The government is pressing ahead with its plan to make tech giants fund journalism, shrugging off Meta’s claim it amounts to a “discriminatory tax”.