Facebook parent company Meta has threatened to remove news from the platform if US Congress passes a proposal aimed at making it easier for news organisations to negotiate collectively with companies like Alphabet's Google and Facebook.Sources briefed on the matter said politicians were considering adding the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) to a must-pass annual defence bill as a way to help the struggling local news industry.The JCPA would allow small and local news publishers to collectively negotiate with the largest US tech companies for compensation for access to the journalistic content that helps generates ad revenue on those platforms.Meta spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted that the company would be forced to consider removing news if the law was passed, "rather than submit to government-mandated negotiations that unfairly disregard any value we provide to news outlets through increased traffic and subscriptions".He said the proposal failed to recognise that publishers and broadcasters put content on the platform because "it benefits their bottom line — not the other way around".Loading Twitter contentThe News Media Alliance, a trade group representing newspaper publishers, is urging Congress to add the bill to the defence bill, arguing that "local papers cannot afford to endure several more years of Big Tech's use and abuse, and time to take action is dwindling.""If Congress does not act soon, we risk allow
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