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California measure would force tech giants to pay news outlets
• MSNOn Monday, California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) announced legislation to require large tech companies to pay a "journalism usage fee" whenever they run digital ads next to news content, such as articles, while making publishers reinvest in journalism jobs.
The California Journalism Competition and Preservation Act resembles a separate bitterly contested federal bill that would allow publishers to jointly bargain content distribution terms with the tech giants.