News industry decries Facebook’s “digital duopoly,” wants government help
by Joe Mullin from Ars Technica - All content on (#2W7T9)
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The News Media Alliance, a trade group representing almost 2,000 news organizations, has asked US Congress for an exemption to antitrust law so that it can "negotiate collectively" with Google and Facebook.
The Alliance, formerly known as the Newspaper Association of America, complains that the two dominant Internet companies form a "de facto duopoly that is vacuuming up all but an ever-decreasing segment of advertising revenue."
The release continues:
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