JCPA Failed Last Congress, This Congress Will Be No Different

Last Congress, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) ultimately failed due to numerous problems with the legislation, including content moderation concerns and competition issues. Despite members of Congress reintroducing JCPA, this time will likely be no different as the text is identical and all these concerns remain.

Similarly, the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), introduced in March, is set to create several of the same issues as the JCPA, if not more. 

Here is what you need to know…

3) Josh Withrow of R Street Institute writes how last-minute changes to JCPA “actually made the bill worse.”

— “[L]ast-minute revisions to the JCPA in 2022 actually made the bill worse for local journalism while placing extra government pressure on the side of media cartels to force companies to accede to the dangerous ‘link tax.’”…