A bipartisan coalition of senators is renewing the battle with Big Tech over legislation that intends to give news publishers more leverage to negotiate with major tech platforms such as Facebook and Google about advertising and distribution of news content.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who leads the Senate’s antitrust panel, has revived the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act with support from six Democrats and seven Republicans in the upper chamber.
The battle over the bill has raged perennially since 2018, with Big Tech emerging unscathed thus far. Facebook’s parent company Meta worked to kill the bill again in 2022 and threatened to remove news on its platforms in December if the bill was inserted into a major annual defense bill. “If Congress passes an ill-considered journalism bill as part of national security legislation, we will be forced to consider removing news from our platform altogether rather than submit to government-mandated negotiations that unfairly disregard any value we provide to news outlets through increased traffic and subscriptions,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said on Twitter in December 2022.
“Tech giants like Facebook and Google are hammering local publications by keeping them from making a profit on Big Tech platforms — and it’s killing local journalism,” Mr. Kennedy said in a statement. “This bill supports the little guy by allowing local news providers to better negotiate with tech companies for the earnings they deserve.”
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