The bill has also attracted criticism from more than two dozen civil society groups that are often at odds with Big Tech on policy matters.
— Facebook owner Meta threatened to remove news content from its platforms following reports that U.S. lawmakers have added controversial legislation favoring news media to the annual defense authorization bill.
“If Congress passes an ill-considered journalism bill as part of national security legislation,” Meta said in a statementby spokesman Andy Stone, “we will be forced to consider removing news from our platform altogether rather than submit to government-mandated negotiations that unfairly disregard any value we provide to news outlets through increased traffic and subscriptions.”
On Monday, Fight for the Future, a digital rights organization, told reporters that “multiple sources” had said a push to include the JCPA in the annual defense bill was successful and that the National Defense Authorization Act included the JCPA’s language. CNN has not independently confirmed the change to the defense bill.
The letter also said the JCPA could end up disproportionately favoring large media companies over the small, local and independent outlets that have been hit the hardest by falling digital ad revenues.
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