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After months of negotiation, California lawmakers finalized a $250 million public-private partnership with Google to fund local newsrooms, in place of a proposed bill. Most journalism groups criticized the deal, particularly its inclusion of an artificial intelligence program., “but now we’re looking at an unenforceable public-private partnership where taxpayers are more on the hook for funding local newsrooms than a literal monopoly whose own contributions appear to be tax-deductible.
California emulated a strategy that other countries like Canada have used to try and reverse the journalism industry’s decline as readership migrated online and advertising dollars evaporated. But the California agreement includes a novel – and controversial — element with funding earmarked for artificial intelligence, a technology that many journalists fear...
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