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mathewi pilhofer NiemanLab Though even a rev share coming from them w/their level of marketplace pressure is its own fraught consideration. But also there's a real q of not just pushing them to contribute more but how taking money from grant programs like this creates complicity in stopping real solutions.On twitter.com
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mathewi pilhofer NiemanLab Google has def created an alliance of publishers who feel alignment with them, in part over this type of 'charity' behavior, that they are using as leverage to fight CA law. But yeah, there's a degree to which this all is in service of retaining their capability to own the gates.Permalink On twitter.com
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mathewi pilhofer NiemanLab There's a great hamiltonnolan piece from early 2018 that says, of the need for big tech to pay out to publishers "The only thing certain is that if you don’t, you will one day wish that you had." splinternews.com/how-to-pay-for-real-news-1825103588 & I think big tech sees it the same way.Permalink On twitter.com
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mathewi pilhofer NiemanLab hamiltonnolan Regardless of the receiving institutions' intent we can see Big Tech makes this investment specifically to push for less regulation of the type that would be good for the publishing industry at large and it doesn't feel great. B/c that's what we need ex: splinternews.com/attack-of-the-middlemen-1833540136Permalink On twitter.com
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mathewi pilhofer NiemanLab hamiltonnolan They could be paying out so much more, or could be radically changed, and obviously the solution is not 'don't take their money and go extinct to prove a point', but we're in a nasty situation that needs a better set of tools, coverage and reactions than we have right now.Permalink On twitter.com
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mathewi pilhofer NiemanLab hamiltonnolan I mean we also all use Google ad tech to some degree, but newsrooms are starting to talk about how that is problematic in a way that they don't talk about how these funds impact the public sphere and regulatory appetite in real ways.Permalink On twitter.com
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mathewi pilhofer NiemanLab hamiltonnolan Sorry... typically long response I know. But it worries me that the 'paper wall' is definitely up for the ways we have always made make money, the traditional 'business side', but I'm not sure it is so clearly defined for these funding practices from big tech.Permalink On twitter.com
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