Google

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Status Tracked

Covered platform under the News Bargaining Incentive; described by the media industry's April 2026 joint statement as taking a comparatively positive approach.

Last on record: 2026-10-10
Named in: 7 articles
Across: 5 cases

Named in 7 articles across 5 cases 35 connections: companies 14, mechanisms 3, regulators and bodies 6, agencies and departments 5, police 2, people 5

Key figure on file

27 June 2026

The date from which age assurance for logged-in Google and Bing users has been in force in Australia, under the search-engine industry code that comm… eSafety Commissioner, search-engine industry code pages

Articles naming it

Cases it recurs across

Linked in the graph

Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Reporting Rort33 articles →Media Ownership11 article →The Smear11 article →The Surveillance Rort27 June 2026The date from which age assurance for logged-in Google and Bing users has been in force in Australia, under the search-engine industry code that co…1 article →The War Trade11 article →

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑10‑10Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

27 June 2026The date from which age assurance for logged-in Google and Bing users has been in force in Australia, under the search-engine industry code that commenced on 27 December 2025.Source: eSafety Commissioner, search-engine industry code pagesThe internet asks for ID →

Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑10‑10Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 7 articles that name Google, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about Google.

Evidence strength · 258 sources across 7 articles

Primary 106
Official 18
Masthead 61
Trade 29
Aggregator 5
Unusable 1
38 not yet graded

Primary: the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official: the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead: a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade: specialist or trade press
Aggregator: republishes others’ work
Unusable: its own sourcing cannot be established

How sources are graded

7 of 7 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

The 12 names most often in the same articles as Google. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.

Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑10‑10Auto-assembled