Tech war with news media flares in US with new Congress push

The Straits Times2021-03-11

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - The battle between news publishers and Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc that flared up in Australia recently is coming to the US. Lawmakers re-introduced legislation ...

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Mr Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican and the ranking member of the House antitrust committee, is a co-sponsor of the legislation in the House along with Mr Cicilline.\n\"Local journalism plays such an important role in keeping the American people informed, but many of our community newspapers have been crushed by the threat of big tech,\" Mr Buck said in a statement. \"This bipartisan Bill will send a lifeline to local news organisations struggling to survive because Google and Facebook have decimated the news industry.\"\nThe House will wade into the issue Friday (March 12) when the antitrust panel holds a hearing as part of its initiative to consider antitrust reforms following a 16-month investigation that accused tech companies of squashing competition.\nIn its report on the findings of the investigation, the committee recommended providing publishers the antitrust safe harbour provision, saying the risk associated with antitrust exemptions are low, \"while the benefits of preserving access to high-quality journalism are difficult to overstate.\"\nMr David Chavern, the president of the News Media Alliance, a trade association that represents about 2,000 news organisations in the US, said the biggest beneficiaries would be small publishers, and it's the \"only way to get some capacity to negotiate.\"\nAustralia's initial proposal would have forced the companies to submit to arbitration to determine how much to pay publishers if deals couldn't be struck. 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