Lawmakers drop journalism act from ‘must-pass’ defense spending bill under pressure from Facebook
by Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune
Dec 07, 2022
2 minutes
An effort to add proposed journalism legislation to an annual “must-pass” defense spending bill was shot down by lawmakers after a public face off with Meta/Facebook over required payments to publishers for online news content.
The 4,408-page text of the National Defense Authorization Act, released Tuesday evening, did not include any reference to the journalism bill.
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