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GOOGLE VS. MICROSOFT: Google on Friday slammed Microsoft in a blog post, accusing the rival company of backing proposals for tech giants to pay news publishers for content for self-serving purposes.
“We also believe that this important debate should be about the substance of the issue, and not derailed by naked corporate opportunism . which brings us to Microsoft’s sudden interest in this discussion,” Google’s senior vice president of global affairs, Kent Walker, wrote in a blog post.
The post was published before Friday morning’s House antitrust subcommittee hearing about the media. Microsoft President Brad Smith testified at the hearing endorsing a bill a bipartisan group of members reintroduced earlier this week, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which would allow news outlets to negotiate collectively with tech platforms over the distribution of their content.
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