California lawmakers are moving ahead with plans to make Google and Facebook subsidize traditional media. Legislation from state Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D–Oakland) would require some digital platforms "to remit a journalism usage fee payment…equal to a percentage…of the covered platform's advertising revenue generated during that month multiplied by the eligible digital journalism provider's allocation share."
Essentially, A.B. 886—dubbed the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA)—would make entities like Google and Facebook pay to link and send traffic to media websites, despite the fact that media outlets get as much if not more out of this arrangement.
