Matt Pearce

California Sen. Steve Glazer is proposing a data-mining fee on Big Tech to fund $500 million in journalism jobs. Let’s do it. Right about now, California Sen. Steve Glazer is unveiling a bill to impose a data-mining fee on Big Tech to fund $500 million in local journalism jobs a year. Click for the livestream

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We must be reasonable! Prayers up: It’s quarterly earnings day, and the mood around Google has presumably been dark ever since the company mournfully announced that it was going to ban journalism in California if the legislature forces the company to pay journalists for the work it profits from. You have to imagine the crushing

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This is not the news ban you’re looking for. The other day I wrote about the (uncertain) future of journalism after the death of hyperlinks, because, well, look around. The following day, Meta promptly obliged the point by rolling out AI features across its services (primarily search functions), which transparently seem intended to keep users

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