French regulator slams Meta for not paying news agencies
- FILE - Visitors take photos at a sign outside Meta headquarters March 26, 2026, in Menlo Park, Calif.
- (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)France's competition watchdog Wednesday accused Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of causing "serious and immediate harm" to French media by failing to compensate it for content it republishes.
- It ordered the US tech giant to hold talks with key newspapers and news agencies to pay the so-called neighbouring rights that, under a 2019 European directive adopted into French law, are due when social media platforms republish news content.
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- FILE - Visitors take photos at a sign outside Meta headquarters March 26, 2026, in Menlo Park, Calif.
- (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)France's competition watchdog Wednesday accused Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of causing "serious and immediate harm" to French media by failing to compensate it for content it republishes.
- It ordered the US tech giant to hold talks with key newspapers and news agencies to pay the so-called neighbouring rights that, under a 2019 European directive adopted into French law, are due when social media platforms republish news content.
Sources: Times of India