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Google's bullying is predictable, self-defeating, and barely justifiable

Google will put California news orgs out of business and lobotomize its AI rather than lose a small fraction of its billions in Search ad revenue.

Zaidi says these same organizations would "use funds from CJPA to continue to buy up local California newspapers, strip them of journalists, and create more ghost papers that operate with a skeleton crew to produce only low-cost, and often low-quality, content." (Image credit: Jay Bonggolto / Android Central)Beyond the virtue signaling about preserving journalism, the crux of Google's argument is buried near the end of Zaidi's post: That the CJPA in its current form "would create a level of business uncertainty that no company could accept." Before coming to Android Central, our new news editor, Nandika Ravi, was displaced from her previous job after her Ontario-based employer lost 33% of its traffic thanks to Instagram, Facebook, and Google banning Canadian links, subsequently laying off one-third of its staff shortly after the policy change.

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