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So there's a lot going on.

Facebook and Google are fighting, I think you could argue fighting dirty.

California has essentially a tax that is designed to help news organizations.

Right now, Google and Facebook, actually there was a study published last year I included it in

the hidden history of Big Brother, maybe it was a year before last, showing that as I recall,

43 or 46% of Americans now get their news from social media, largely Facebook and Twitter,

but also Google is a major source of news for people.

And what happens is that they publish news articles that were published in newspaper.

For example, the Oregonian here in Oregon is a local newspaper used to be owned by a

hedge fund out of New York, I think it's locally owned now. And I see them on Facebook all the time,

you know, Facebook has articles from the Oregonian because Facebook knows I live in Oregon.

Or Facebook is making money on those articles because people are on Facebook and they're reading

the articles and they're seeing the advertised, but the Facebook puts there.

But Facebook doesn't give any of that money to the Oregonian, they don't give any money

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