said it will stop providing news articles on their platforms for users in California if they are required to pay news outlets a fee under a journalism proposal in the state legislature." in March. It would require large online platforms like Facebook and Google to pay a usage fee to eligible news publishers every month taken from the ad revenue they generate on the platform. News outlets would also be required to spend 70% of that fee on funding journalist and staff salaries and hiring.
Messenger and Facebook app logos are displayed on a mobile phone screen for illustration photo. Krakow, Poland on January 23, 2023."If the Journalism Preservation Act 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"The bill fails to recognize that publishers and broadcasters put their content on our platform themselves," Stone continued.
Progressive Assemblymember Buffy Wicks , who introduced the bill, argued the legislation would help struggling local news outlets.