Lawmakers are considering an amendment to Congress’s must-pass defense bill that would force Big Tech firms to pay news outlets for their content, prompting new threats from Facebook's parent company that it would remove news from its platform altogether if the legislation passes.
Introduced last year with bipartisan support, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act would create a four-year exemption under antitrust law that would allow news outlets to collectively bargain against social media platforms for a larger share of ad revenue in exchange for their news content. It would also require tech firms to negotiate payout terms “in good faith” with news publishers for distributing their content.
The company made similar threats to block news in Canada and Australia when comparable laws were proposed. Meta briefly suspended the ability to view and share news stories on its platforms in Australia and then later changed course after reaching a compromise. “A good bill defines itself through its enemies. If you are making the right people mad, you’re generally doing the right thing,” Kennedy said to the Washington Examiner.The National Defense Authorization Act needs to pass by the end of the year to keep the military funded, and attaching the JCPA to the legislation would make it much more likely to pass. The JCPA advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this fall with bipartisan support, but seven Republicans, including Sen.
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