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Facebook parent company Meta on Monday threatened to remove news from its social media platform in the US if Congress approves a bill that would allow news organizations to collectively bargain with tech companies for compensation.
Andy Stone, Meta’s head of policy communications, wrote on Twitter that Facebook would “be forced to consider removing news” if the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act becomes law. He added that the proposal fails to recognize that publishers and broadcasters put their content on Facebook “because it benefits their bottom line — not the other way around.
