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Senate Committee Grill Facebook, Google and Twitter During Hearing on Local News

“These trillion-dollar companies scrape local news content and data for their own sites and leverage their market dominance to force local news to accept little to no compensation for their intellectual property,” said Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA). (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)NNPA NEWSWIRE — The report, titled, “Local Journalism: America’s Most Trusted News Sources Threatened,” sought to emphasize the role of a free press in a thriving democracy, define the challenges facing local news outlets, and encourage bipartisan support for both short and long-term federal interventions to level the digital playing field so local journalism can flourish.

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