The bill also incentivizes publishers to invest in hiring new journalists and newsroom personnel. However, the JCPA is specifically designed to help small- and medium-sized papers and would help flow subscription and advertising dollars back to their newsrooms. Large national publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times won’t qualify. It’s narrowly tailored to ensure that coordination by news publishers is only in the interest of protecting trustworthy, quality journalism.Ĭritics of the JCPA have parroted Big Tech’s argument that the bill would predominantly help large national publications. antitrust laws, which prevent local papers from negotiating as a group. The JCPA would provide a temporary, limited antitrust safe harbor for small, local news publishers to collectively negotiate with Facebook and Google for fair compensation for the use of their content. Ironically, Big Tech is protected by U.S. Big Tech platforms control virtually every aspect of the online advertising business and use clever tactics to keep users on their sites and deprive publishers of the ability to monetize their content. Big Tech has commoditized and disconnected news content from its sources, undermining the advertising business that served as a bedrock of the newspaper industry. The main challenge for small news publishers is that Google and Facebook have hindered local outlets’ ability to be fairly compensated for the significant value their content generates for these platforms.
Instead of the government stifling journalism, local papers are steadily being shuttered due to the unchecked influence of two private entities: Google and Facebook. About two newspapers have been closing every week since 2005. Compared to national news, six in 10 Americans have more trust in local news to report on stories that affect their daily lives, and they are about twice as likely to trust local news to report on the information they need to vote.ĭespite our trust in local news, too many communities today are hurtling towards Jefferson’s worst fear, but in a way he never could have imagined. They trust their local news outlets, even in this highly fractured and partisan time. The sheriff's office has issued Facebook a search warrant and an order to take the page down, however as of the posting of this story, the page still exists.Jefferson knew that local papers were vital to a thriving democracy, and that notion is as true today as it was at our nation’s beginning. What we are not sure of is if they are sending messages asking for any type of money," Hudson said. "Fake messages, fake stories that did not happen here. Officials say that the fake page is reposting official messages from the real page, along with fake information. "If the person that did it, gives out the wrong information, that could hurt somebody," Fowler said. One resident, Karisti Fowler, said that she follows the Facebook page and relies on it to stay informed. The fake page also does not have a check mark next to it, which Facebook uses to show a verified account. The real page reads: Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office, while the fake one reads: The Ascension Parish Sheriffs Office. The difference between the fake page and real page is an apostrophe. "I think this can turn into a real big problem because people will start following that page and believe in that page and with social media, rumors kinda get out there and spread in matter of seconds," Allison Hudson, of the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office, said. Officials say the page can cause a serious problem for residents in the parish. It uses an official logo, however the page is filled with posts of false information. The page claims to belong to the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office. ASCENSION – The Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office is looking for the individual responsible for creating a fake sheriff's office page on Facebook.
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