A Proposed Law in Australia Would Force Facebook and Google to Pay for the News They Use to Improve Their Feeds and Search Results

The California Journalism Preservation Act would require large online platforms to pay a “journalism usage fee” for linking to news sites.

Hedge funds and media conglomerates would benefit most from the CJPA, which sets up a perverse incentive to create yet more clickbait.

To those in favor of federal regulators imposing new fees on broadband subscribers, Free Press has a simple message: Count us out.