Meanwhile, the proposed US version, #JCPA, has a payout schedule based on the number of clicks a news outlet generates for each platform - a metric that will see the lion's share of money going to the far-right clickbait sites that push conspiracy theories, disinformation, and culture-war nonsense - and see floods of social media traffic as a result.

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*if you still have one.

Part of getting out from under our #disinformation society is rebuilding local news. Sometimes that news is owned by conglomerates, but if they are serving your community, you must support them. Information is everything when suffering through an information war. We need to pass the Local Journalism Sustainability Act in the next Congress #LJSA (NOT #JCPA) #SaveLocalNews

Big 🇺🇸 Press Publishers try to sneak the so-called “Journalism Competition & Preservation Act” (#JCPA) into other legislation to get this flawed idea adopted at all cost
@glynmoody writes about these pushes towards #WalledCulture in his book 👉 https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

Big 🇺🇸 Press Publishers try to sneak the so-called “Journalism Competition & Preservation Act” (#JCPA) into other legislation to get this flawed idea adopted at all cost
@glynmoody writes about these pushes towards #WalledCulture in his book 👉 https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

The #JCPA is a terrible concept, made even worse. The #LJSA would go far to rebuild local journalism.

https://techpolicy.press/the-antitrust-pro-journalism-bill-that-is-neither/

I wrote something about the political money creeping into the #localnews space . Add the lobbying that squashed the far from ideal #JCPA (and so far all other support for independent journalism ) and we run the risk of seeing a much greater politicization of local reporting in the coming year - and maybe beyond.

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/local-news-faces-a-political-future-as-the-jcpa-falls-foul-of-lobbyists.php

The only parties who like the #JCPA are hedge funds and the pols they lobby. Ken Doctor explains why the rest of us hate it. https://lookout.co/santacruz/civic-life/story/2022-12-12/save-local-news-or-provide-a-lifeline-to-newspaper-owning-hedge-funds-time-to-bury-orwellian-jcpa

The only parties who like the #JCPA are hedge funds and the pols they lobby. Ken Doctor explains why the rest of us hate it. https://lookout.co/santacruz/civic-life/story/2022-12-12/save-local-news-or-provide-a-lifeline-to-newspaper-owning-hedge-funds-time-to-bury-orwellian-jcpa

Good read on the problematic Journalism Competition & Preservation Act by @JeremyLittau. “Congress’ Best Idea to Save Local Journalism Would Actually Hurt It” #JCPA https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/jcpa-journalism-competition-preservation-act.html

I'm all for the Fourth Estate to finally get a piece of the pie from the tech giants. :blobcatdetective:

"Facebook and Google have been free-riding on the coattails of media publishers for years. The code addresses the bargaining imbalance and made big tech pay their fair share"

#Meta #Google #JCPA

:quotesL: Google and Meta Embrace Full-Court Strategy Against Media Ad Revenue Sharing Proposal :quotesR:

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/07/google-facebook-ads-news-jcpa/

Congress dropped #JCPA from the defense bill.

"The bill split progressives and conservatives alike, forming unlikely alliances on both sides of a years-long political fight over the future of news online." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/06/ndaa-jcpa-newspapers-fail/

Google and Meta Embrace Full-Court Strategy Against Media Ad Revenue Sharing Proposal https://theintercept.com/2022/12/07/google-facebook-ads-news-jcpa/ #news #uspoli #Google #Meta #Facebook #SocialMedia #media #news #journalism #JCPA

Google and Meta Embrace Full-Court Strategy Against Media Ad Revenue Sharing Proposal https://theintercept.com/2022/12/07/google-facebook-ads-news-jcpa/ #news #uspoli #Google #Meta #Facebook #SocialMedia #media #news #journalism #JCPA

And Sen. Klobuchar is right. The local-news crisis is real. But positioning the #JCPA as its solution has proven not only to be wrong but a colossal distraction when there are far better ways to put reporters on local beats and promote the sort of accountability journalism that's missing from far too many American communities.

[Earlier this fall, Sanjay Jolly and I outline some of these better options for lawmakers here: https://commondreams.org/views/2022/10/21/journalisms-bad-bargain ]

Here's our STATEMENT on the #JCPA being removed from the #NDAA. Now it's time for Dems to deliver on their promise to rein in #BigTech. #AICOA and #OAMA are the only tech bills left standing. Schumer is out of excuses. Put them up for a vote! https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-12-07-new-the-jcpa-has-been-removed-from-the-ndaa-thats-good-but-now-its-time-to-move-aicoa-and-oama

Unrigging the ad-tech market is a much better policy than establishing a link-tax, like the Democrats are poised to do with their #JournalismCompetitionAndPreservationAct (#JCPA):

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/12/06/jcpa-opponents-spring-into-action-to-block-ndaa-inclusion-00072602

It's easy to understand why the monopoly/private-equity-dominated news industry wants JCPA, rather than a clean ad market.

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To expand on what I wrote ☝️ about the #JCPA, here's a great article on why even most *journalists* were opposed to this bill - https://www.freepress.net/blog/jcpa-myths-and-realities-bad-journalism-bill

While the desire of encouraging local journalism is a good one, the reality is that this bill seems to play right into the desires of the lobbyists of the large publishers and hedge fund owners (who are actually *destroying* journalism, in my opinion).

The #JCPA has lots of opponents and, in a rare case of true balance, they come from right and left-- because it's truly terrible legislation.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/12/06/jcpa-opponents-spring-into-action-to-block-ndaa-inclusion-00072602

The #JCPA has lots of opponents and, in a rare case of true balance, they come from right and left-- because it's truly terrible legislation.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/12/06/jcpa-opponents-spring-into-action-to-block-ndaa-inclusion-00072602

Good news: #JCPA emergency over...for now.
Weird news: the only outlet covering this is Breitbart because the rest of mass media were hanging back hoping for a payday.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/06/severe-blowback-on-effort-to-include-media-cartel-bill-jcpa-in-defense-bill-forces-congressional-leaders-to-remove-from-bill/