California Journalism Fee Bill on Big Tech Pushed to Next Year

The California legislature will not pass legislation that would force Big Tech to pay for news content this year after the author announced Friday she is postponing votes on her controversial measure (A.B. 886) until 2024.

“I’ve agreed to make A.B. 886 a two-year bill in order to ensure the strongest legislation possible—because getting this policy right is more important than getting it quick,” Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D) said in a statement. “My priority is making sure this bill does exactly, and only, what it intends: to support our free press and the democracy sustained by it, to ...