Data overload: The Asia-Pacific Tipline for 19 February 2021

Digital platforms remain the flavour of the day in the antitrust world, and competition watchdogs in Indonesia and Japan are the latest to issue reports on the sector. Also in this week’s Tipline, the saga over whether Google and Facebook should pay for news has reached a boiling point in Australia, with the former inking a major deal with NewsCorp and the latter claiming it plans to just stop sharing news on its platform in Australia.