How Advertising, Not Social Media, Killed Traditional Journalism
News outlets relied for so long on advertising to sustain them, they could never recover once it went elsewhere.
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News outlets relied for so long on advertising to sustain them, they could never recover once it went elsewhere.
Meta’s unwillingness to return to the negotiation table places media platforms of all kinds in a vulnerable position as Australia awaits their fate — a fate held in inexorable and indifferent hands.
After Australia passed a similar law, news outlets there received hundreds of millions of dollars annually from Facebook and Google.
Google has recently announced its decision to pull news from Google Search along with other products in Canada.
Google will pull news from Google Search and in Canada over legislation that would force it to share revenues with news publishers.