The law should force Google to remove California sites from its searches; understand

Google should start removing links to California news sites from search results for Californians. The move would come in response to a bill that would require online advertising companies to pay a fee to connect state residents with local news sources. The information comes from the website CNBC.

Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s vice president of global news partnerships, announced Tuesday that a short-term test will be conducted, with the links removed. According to the executive, the bill, called the California Journalism Preservation Act, is the wrong approach to supporting journalism and “would create a level of business uncertainty that no company could accept”.

The bill was introduced last year but remains pending in the state legislature.

Online platforms have changed their stance towards news portals

Also last year, Meta banned Canadian users from sharing news on its apps after the Canadian federal government passed the Online News Act, which forced tech companies to pay content fees to local news outlets.

Supporters of the California bill believe the measure will help news publishers receive a big chunk of the advertising profits made by tech giants like Apple, Google and Meta.

But there are those who criticize the idea, fearing that the bill promotes a compensation ecosystem that favors larger newsrooms with more resources at the expense of smaller news organizations.

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