Bill aims to bolster finances of news outlets after the societal shift to consuming information online diverted revenue from newspapers to digital-ads giants such as Google and Facebook, which have…
Signaling potential trouble for an effort to help news organizations survive in the internet age, an East Bay lawmaker has pulled back a bill that would force Google, Meta and other big technology firms to pay media companies in California for using their content.
“Big Tech isn’t as sympathetic a figure as they once were,” Wicks said. “Lawmakers realize there’s a real problem here. We have dying newsrooms across the state of California. Over 100 publications have closed in the past 10 years. At the same time we have Big Tech making record profits in part off content that the publishers have produced.”
Meta, in a statement Friday, blasted the legislation, repeating its pledge that if AB 886 passes, “we will be forced to remove news from Facebook and Instagram rather than pay into a slush fund that primarily benefits big, out-of-state media companies under the guise of aiding California publishers.”
The bill is sponsored by the California News Publishers Association, to which the Bay Area News Group belongs, and backed by a number of print and broadcast news companies. It is opposed by a range of groups, including the ACLU of California, the California Taxpayers Association, the California Chamber of Commerce, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and some online news organizations, including CalMatters and Lookout Santa Cruz.
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