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This is our first statement on the #JCPAct, a looming disaster for the right to share online.

If you think fake news is bad now, just wait—#JCPA creates a monopolistic pipeline to put Facebook $ into Fox News hands & limit who can share news online.

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The #JCPAct speeds up the decline of journalism+rise of disinfo, while pretending to do the opposite. Under it, online platforms would pay big news orgs for linking to them or using their content in some undefined way.

Funneling internet $ to rich propagandists like Murdoch.
The premise of #JCPAct is that News Corp, Fox News, all the biggest peddlers of disinfo in news, need a special law to link up and collude more with Facebook, the biggest peddler of disinfo online—using their power to crush local journalism in the process.
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