Meta, the social media group formerly known as Facebook, is threatening to remove news from its platforms if the USA adopt a law that would force it to negotiate with publishers to pay for their content.
If this sounds familiar, your memory is correct: Australia proposed just such a law in 2021. Facebook pulled news from its platform for a few weeks, but then returned to the negotiating table and agreed to pay only local news outlets.
The Australian government argued that news publishers' content had value that Facebook and Google weren't paying for, and argued that they should do so by sending them money that would fund their operations.
The law on competition and preservation of journalism of the United States in 2022 has similar goals, but relies on small publishers (in Companies with fewer than 1.500 employees). The aim of the new bill is to help publishers and broadcasters band together and negotiate with companies like Facebook and Google for their “conditions and the conditions of the platform's access to digital news content".
The definition of “platform” is online platforms with at least 50 million users με έδρα τις ΗΠΑ, με καθαρές ετήσιες πωλήσεις που υπερβαίνουν τα 550 δισεκατομμύρια δολάρια και διαθέτουν τουλάχιστον ένα billion active monthly users worldwide.
In short: Meta and Google.