Time is ticking on a fascinatingly divisive piece of tech legislation moving through Congress—and Meta is making a final push to run out the clock.
The tech giant threatened Monday to pull news stories from its Facebook platform if Congress passes the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, a bill that would essentially force Meta and Google parent Alphabet to share ad revenues with most media publishers. Meta’s warning came as various reports emerged that the JCPA might get attached to a piece of national defense legislation that must pass before the end of the year.
