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News Publishers Push For Bargaining Rights Against Web Giants

A group of news organizations are pushing for the right to negotiate collectively with Facebook, Google, and the web’s other gatekeepers, The New York Times reports. To do so, they will ask for “limited antitrust exemption” from Congress. “It’s an extreme measure with long odds,” The Times writes. “But the industry considers it worth a shot, given its view that Google and Facebook, regardless of their intentions, are posing a bigger threat economically than President Trump is (so far) with his rhetoric.”

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