--- title: "Indonesia regulates tech companies’ media use" description: "Plus, House forms bipartisan task force for AI regulation, announcing the Pew-Knight Initiative" date: "2024-02-22" authors: - name: "nformankatz" url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/the-briefing/indonesia-regulates-tech-companies-media-use/" --- # Indonesia regulates tech companies’ media use ![](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/prc-logo.png){.aligncenter width=409} --- February 22, 2024 # The Briefing **☀️ Happy Thursday!** *The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information*.* [**Sign up here!**](https://www.pewresearch.org/sign-up-for-the-briefing/)* **In today*’*s email:** - **Featured story:** Indonesia to require technology companies to pay for media they use - **New from Pew Research Center:** Introducing the Pew-Knight Initiative - **In other news:** Poland’s new government brings changes to public media - **Looking ahead:** House leadership announces task force on AI issues - **Chart of the week:** Wide partisan differences in attention to news about the U.S.-Mexico border situation 🔥 **Featured story** **Indonesia** recently announced [new rules for tech companies](https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/indonesia-issues-regulations-requiring-digital-platforms-pay-media-content-2024-02-20/) requiring them to **pay for the media they use on their platforms**. The law aims to level the playing field between local media and global tech companies that operate in the country, including Meta and Google. [Australia and Canada](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/glitch-code-google-meta-fight-over-news-canada-australia) have taken similar steps in the past couple of years. About three-quarters of Indonesians (78%) **use the internet** at least occasionally, including 96% of adults ages 18 to 39, according to a [2023 Pew Research Center survey](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/05/8-charts-on-technology-use-around-the-world/). A similar share (76%) **own a smartphone**, and 73% **use social media sites**. 🚨 **New from Pew Research Center** **Pew Research Center** and the **John S. and James L. Knight Foundation **have announced [a five-year partnership](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/21/introducing-the-pew-knight-initiative/) aimed at improving our understanding of how Americans gather information about the world around them – and how that information fuels their beliefs, shapes their identities, forges their communities and inspires civic participation. [The Pew-Knight Initiative](https://www.pewresearch.org/pew-knight/) will use diverse methodologies to provide a comprehensive, real-time look at the fast-evolving information landscape from the standpoints of both consumers and producers of news. 📌 **In other news** - A look at the sweeping changes **Poland’s new government** is making to [its public media](https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1230673951/poland-new-government-polish-news-media) - How Palestinian photographer **Motaz Azaiza **[documented Gaza’s suffering](https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000009304935/motaz-azaiza-gaza.html) - The [theft of a radio tower](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/us/alabama-radio-tower-stolen.html) in **Walker County, Alabama** - How **Sinclair Media** [centers crime reporting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/16/sinclair-broadcasting-conservative-media-trump/) in its TV programming - Illinois [introduces legislation](https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/02/19/illinois-local-news-legislation-stadelman/) to support **local journalism** - How **drill rap** can be [a form of journalism](https://www.cjr.org/cover_story/ghetto-reporter-why-drill-rap-is-a-form-of-journalism.php) 📅 **Looking ahead** House leadership announced earlier this week the formation of [a new bipartisan task force aimed at regulating AI technologies](https://www.courthousenews.com/house-stands-up-new-task-force-to-tackle-ai-policy-issues/). According to a [Pew Research Center survey from last year](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/28/most-americans-havent-used-chatgpt-few-think-it-will-have-a-major-impact-on-their-job/), Americans who have heard of ChatGPT largely worry about insufficient government regulation as chatbots become more widespread. Two-thirds say they are** more concerned that government will not go far enough** in regulating chatbot use than that regulations will go too far. This view is **more common among Democrats** and Democratic-leaning independents than among their Republican and Republican-leaning counterparts (75% vs. 59%). 📊 **Chart of the week** This week’s chart comes from [our recent report](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/02/15/how-americans-view-the-situation-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-its-causes-and-consequences/) on how Americans view the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border. Republicans are paying closer attention to news about the border than Democrats are: 43% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they are following this news topic extremely or very closely, compared with 20% of Democrats and Democratic leaners. [![A bar chart showing that about twice as many Republicans as Democrats are following news about border extremely or very closely](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/02/PP_2024.2.15_US-Mexico-border_1-3.webp){.aligncenter width=275}](https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/the-briefing/the-briefing-2024-02-22/pp_2024-2-15_us-mexico-border_1-3-webp/) --- *👋 That's all for this week. * The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Sarah Naseer, Christopher St. Aubin, Luxuan Wang and Emily Tomasik. It is edited by Katerina Eva Matsa, Michael Lipka and Mark Jurkowitz, and copy edited by Anna Jackson. *Do you like this newsletter? 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