[LINK] Google agrees to pay news publishers more than $1 billion

[Kim Holburn]

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On 2020/10/2 9:16 pm, jwhit at internode.on.net wrote:
> What I don't understand is why Twitter isn't in this. I was just 
> watching Skynews on Twitter Live. The UK version. So it was actually fine.
> 
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>     https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/01/media/google-news-publishers-payments/index.html
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>      > Google, along with Facebook, controls a large share of the
>     advertising dollars that once went to publishers in the news
>     industry. 

Is that really true?  What about amazon, ebay, allhomes, gumtree, 
craig's list and many others?


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