Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan
Meta, the social media conglomerate formerly known as Facebook, has threatened to remove news from its platforms if the US adopts a law that would force it to negotiate with publishers to pay them for allowing links to their content.
If that sounds familiar, your memory is holding up well: Australia proposed just such a law in 2021, Facebookfor a few weeks, but then came back to the bargaining table and agreed to pay local news outlets. Australia's government argued that news publishers' content has value that Facebook and Google weren't paying for, and asserted they should do so by sending them money to fund their operations.has similar aims, but relies on smallish publishers and broadcasters to band together and negotiate with the likes of Facebook and Google over"terms and conditions of the covered platform’s access to digital news content.
The definition of"covered platform" is online platforms with at least 50 million US-based users, net annual sales exceeding $550 billion or at least a billion worldwide monthly active users.Meta communications chap Andy Stone expressed The Social Network's displeasure with the draft law as follows:
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