A competition bill aimed at funneling funds from online platforms to the news industry was removed from a must-pass defense bill Tuesday at the last minute by congressional leaders.
The bill, known as the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act , would have forced Big Tech firms like Google and Meta to pay hundreds of local news outlets for their content.Early versions of the National Defense Authorization Act circulated this week included the bill, but it was gone from theJCPA's inclusion was a surprise in the first place, and it was likely being used as a negotiating tool by lawmakers working out the final package.
Tech industry and civil society groups aggressively pushed back against the bill, arguing that it would benefit big news conglomerates and compel tech companies to subsidize purveyors of misinfomation.
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