US Senate panel delays vote on bill allowing news outlets to negotiate jointly with Big Tech

The US Senate Judiciary Committee scrapped a planned vote aimed at allowing news organisations to win more revenue from Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook.

“Today we held over the bill in the Judiciary Committee in part because a colleague was out and we needed his vote on one amendment,” said bill sponsor Senator Amy Klobuchar. “I fully plan to move forward with the bill.”

Supporters of the bill have said that it is necessary in order to ensure that news organizations, which have struggled to make profits in recent years, receive a fair share of advertising revenue from Google and Facebook by allowing them to band together to negotiate collectively with the tech companies.