It is the unequal struggle of the very great against the small ones. The very big ones are big corporations (like Google and Meta) for continuing to offer news on their platforms without having to pay to get that news from the newspapers that generate it, which are small journalistic companies. And something very similar happens in almost every country in the world.
The fight has recently been taking place in Canada, where the government has created a law that forces these large corporations to pay for the news they obtain from local Canadian newspapers and offer on their platforms.
These large platforms are interested in offering news so that their users stay on them as long as possible, because the longer they stay, the more data they get from them. Data that is then sold in the market, and that contributes significantly to the great profits of these huge companies.
As always, both Google and Meta have opposed the law for the reasons they almost always give: that these types of laws stifle and repress innovation. They always say that when any government tries to put some limitation on their omnipotence.
It remains to be seen if there is some kind of agreement, or as those platforms have threatened to withdraw the news. I am very clear that we cannot bow to the monopolies exercised by these companies.
As a society we need to have newspapers and journalists that generate reliable news, so that we really know what is happening and the reasons why these things happen, because that is a pillar of our democracy. Without a free and independent press there is no democracy.
Big corporations (Google and Meta) don't care about that at all. They just want to increase their economic benefits at whatever cost. Even if it is spreading lies, which are now called “deep fakes”.
They don't care about the truth of what they post, just that their users stay on their platform as long as possible, to get more data from them, and then sell that data. There is their business, and that is their only interest.
I think that the governments of the world are being excessively submissive to these large companies, because they are not essential. If Google or Meta disappeared, in a very short time we would continue living the same. It is one thing for them to be useful and quite another for them to be essential. And we must be very clear that they are not.
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