Meta and Google are on a collision course with lawmakers over the Online News Act, which would force them to pay publishers for content.
“All we’re asking Facebook to do is negotiate fair deals with news outlets when they profit from their work,” Rodriguez
Monday. “This is part of a disappointing trend this week that tech giants would rather pull news than pay their fair share.”This isn’t the first time Meta’s raised concerns over the bill. After C-18 was announced, Meta released aarguing the bill “misrepresents the relationship between platforms and news publishers,” and inaccurately presumed the social media giant unfairly benefits from its relationship with news providers.
s publicly, with a spokesperson telling Gizmodo it, “runs thousands of tests each year,” but lawmakers like Rodriguez appeared to intercept those acti“We’ve been fully transparent about our concern that C-18 is overly broad and, if unchanged, could impact products Canadians use and rely on every day,” a Google spokesperson
. “We remain committed to supporting a sustainable future for news in Canada and offering solutions that fix Bill C-18.”
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