.Meta threatens to remove news from Facebook if Congress passes bipartisan bill
The tech giant's intervention comes as its critics hope to use the lame-duck session of Congress to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, a bill written by Sen. Amy Klobuchar that would allow small and conservative outlets to band together in negotiations with Big Tech without running afoul of anti-collusion rules.
The bill's opponents fear that the act will be attached to a must-pass defense spending bill, allowing it to be enacted before the end of the year.The statement arrived months after Facebook updated its news feed to emphasize personal content over news content. The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the act to the floor in September but has not yet received a vote in the full chamber.Several technology and public interest groups advocated removing the act from any pending legislation. The bill would"compound some of the biggest issues in our information landscape and do little to enable the most promising new models to improve it," a coalition of 27 public interest and trade groups told Congress on Monday.
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