Google And Facebook To The Rescue: Canadian News Gets On Big Tech’s Payroll
CANADALAND
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How Facebook and Google Are Paying News Organizations for What They Pay?
Over 100 selected news outlets in canada have already struck deals with facebook and google because the tech giants wanted to get ahead of the online news act. Those news organizations whom we rely on to report on, fasbuk and gugel, well, they all had to sign confidentiality deals. The biggest hit up until now has been what exactly do these deals say facebook and google are paying news organizations for whatever the ultimate sum is. How is it determined? Is it based on how many people click on a news article? Or is it based on the quality of the news content? Maybe it's based on the number of journalists that each news organization employs. This is a key question about incentives
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