BY JASON COHEN
- The Chamber of Progress, a tech industry group that receives backing from companies like Google and Meta, recently issued statements and conducted a study opposing the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), suggesting that the CJPA would primarily benefit conservative media organizations.
- On Thursday, the California Assembly passed the CJPA, a bill that mandates companies such as Google and Meta compensate news publications for the inclusion of news links on their platforms. The Chamber of Progress, which identifies Google and Meta as corporate partners on its website, expressed concerns that this bill would disproportionately benefit âdisinformation giants like Fox News and the New York Post.â
- âLabeling conservative outlets as âdisinformationâ has long been a strategy of leftists to discredit any news outlet that doesnât toe the line of liberal groupthink,â Founder and President of the Internet Accountability Project Mike Davis told the Daily Caller News Foundation. âThe Chamber of Progress is a radical group that seeks to instill far left ideology in everything it touches, so it shouldnât come as a surprise that it would advocate for censorship of conservative or even moderate outlets. Conservative publications and independent journalists are the most likely to be victims of censorship from the gatekeepers at Big Tech, and the CJPA would take a sledgehammer to that power by making them finally pay conservative outlets.â
The Chamber of Progress, a tech industry coalition backed by companies such as Google and Meta, released statements and a study arguing against the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), stating it would primarily benefit conservative media outlets…
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