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Newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune and the Miami Herald are controlled by the likes of Alden Global Capital and Chatham Asset Management.</p>\n<p>The bills come not long after Facebook battled with Australia over how much it should pay news publishers for their content. During the fight, Facebook blacked out Australian news pages and only restored them once the government granted concessions.</p>\n<p>Facebook declined comment on the new U.S. legislation.</p>\n<p>Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat who sponsored the bill in the Senate, said the Australia dispute illustrated Facebook’s outsized clout and the need to give publishers more leverage. “We have to have an even playing field and allow people to negotiate,” she said Thursday in a congressional hearing.</p>\n<p>The tech platforms appear to have few friends in Congress, where Democrats have been angered by misinformation online and conservatives argue that their views have been stifled.</p>\n<p>Among groups that back the legislation, David Chavern, president and chief executive of the News Media Alliance, sees collective bargaining as a critical way to increase the negotiating power of small and medium-size publishers.</p>\n<p>“There has to be some kind of dispute resolution mechanism” between platforms and publishers in addition to collective bargaining, said Chavern, adding that his group is flexible about what that could entail.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GOOG":"谷歌","GOOGL":"谷歌A"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2118546957","content_text":"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lobbyists for Facebook and Google threw their weight against new U.S. legislation that seeks to aid struggling news publishers by allowing them to negotiate collectively against the tech companies over revenue sharing and other deals.\nU.S. lawmakers introduced the plan in Congress on Wednesday to address a perceived power imbalance between news outlets and the tech giants. Critics accuse the companies of using content to drive traffic and ad revenue to their platforms without fairly compensating the publishers.\nThe move adds to pressure on the tech firms, which are facing antitrust lawsuits and the threat of more regulation.\nGoogle, which declined comment on the proposal, launched a websitehereon Thursday asserting it is \"one of the world's biggest financial supporters of journalism\" by virtue of the ad revenue and content licensing fees it provides to media. 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