Google is doing what the Democrats want—limiting information to the California public.
“Google announced Friday it would remove links to California news sites from its search results for some users as it continues to push back against a pending state bill that would require the company to pay publishers.
In a blog post published Friday, the search giant said the bill, officially known as the California Journalism Preservation Act, would change the company’s business model.
If signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the bill would require tech companies like Google to pay news outlets a “journalism usage fee” when they sell advertising alongside news content.”
At the same time Google is promoting the lies of the Federal government and government agencies—while limiting those with facts to be seen and heard. Google would have done well in the 9130’s Germany.
Google will reduce some users access to California news sites
by: Iman Palm, KTLA, 4/12/24 https://ktla.com/news/california/google-will-reduce-some-users-access-to-california-news-sites/SHARE
Google announced Friday it would remove links to California news sites from its search results for some users as it continues to push back against a pending state bill that would require the company to pay publishers.
In a blog post published Friday, the search giant said the bill, officially known as the California Journalism Preservation Act, would change the company’s business model.
If signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the bill would require tech companies like Google to pay news outlets a “journalism usage fee” when they sell advertising alongside news content.
“We have long said this is the wrong approach to supporting journalism. If passed, CJPA may result in significant changes to the services we can offer Californians and the traffic we can provide to California publishers,” Jaffer Zaidi, vice president of Global News Partnerships at Google, said in the post.
The company also announced that it is “pausing further investments in the California news ecosystem, including new partnerships through Google News Showcase, our product and licensing program for news organizations, and planned expansions of the Google News Initiative.”
Google has partnered with more than “7,000 news publishers around the world, including 200 news organizations and 6,000 journalists in California alone,” for its Google News initiative. The initiative has helped provide grants and training to journalists on digital tools.
However, expansion efforts have also been paused “until there’s clarity on California’s regulatory environment,” the blog said.
“By helping people find news stories, we help publishers of all sizes grow their audiences at no cost to them,” Zaidi wrote. “CJPA would up-end that model.”
Many news outlets rely on traffic from Google and Facebook to distribute the news but are at the whim of the companies’ algorithms.
Publishers like the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and more laid off a significant number of staff due partly to low revenue due to the decline of print journalism and low advertising dollars.
Supporters of the bill say it would level the playing field for news outlets that have struggled to gain a digital audience. In contrast, critics, including Google, say the bill will favor media conglomerates and hedge funds, thus putting smaller outlets at a disadvantage.
Zaidi also shared that just 2% of search queries on Google search are news-related since many people now get their news from short-form videos, topical newsletters, social media, and curated podcasts or avoid the news industry altogether.
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