The proposed California Journalism Preservation Act would require “online platforms” to pay “journalism usage fees” to news providers whose articles appear on their services, in an effort to counter the decline in local news.
Meta is headquartered in California, USA. Photo: GI
In a statement, Meta spokesman Andy Stone called the payment structure a “slush fund” and said the bill primarily benefits “large media companies, under the guise of supporting journalism in California.”
This is Meta's first statement on the bill in California, though the company has waged similar battles over payments to news organizations at the federal level and in other countries outside the United States.
In December, Stone said Meta would remove news from its platform entirely if the U.S. Congress passed a bill similar to California's proposed law, called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which would make it easier for news organizations to negotiate with platforms like Google and Facebook.
Meta is also threatening to pull news from its platforms in Canada in response to the country's news law. Google has even experimented with removing links to news articles from search results in Canada in protest of the bill.
The bills are similar to a groundbreaking law Australia passed in 2021 that prompted Facebook and Google to threaten to cut off their services. But both giants ultimately agreed to share profits with the press. Australian officials announced in December 2022 that the deal had largely worked.
Hoang Hai (according to Meta, NL)
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