Meta says it will block news in Illinois if the state Senate passes the Journalism Preservation Act, which would require it to pay local news publishers when their work is shared on its platforms.
A new Illinois bill called the Journalism Preservation Act that’s currently sitting in the state’s Senate would require online companies to pay local news publishers for work viewed by residents on their platforms. This follows in the footsteps of national laws in Canada and Australia, as well as in California. Like in those cases, Meta says it will pull news from its platforms in the state if the bill becomes law.
The companies would then have 10 days from the end of the month to pay a “journalism usage fee” to each of those publishers equal to 1 percent of their advertising revenue for the period. The bill calls local journalism “key to sustaining civic society,” saying it gives information “at a deeper level that national outlets cannot match,” but notes that “over the past 10 years, newspaper advertising has decreased 66%, and newsroom staff has declined 44%.
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