News Media Lobby Group Says Google Concerns About Online News Act Are Valid

News Media Lobby Group Says Google Concerns About Online News Act Are Valid
The Google News homepage is displayed on an iPhone in Ottawa on Feb. 28, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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A lobby group for Canada’s newspapers and magazines says it agrees with many of the issues raised by Google about a law that will force the tech giant to compensate those same publishers for use of their work.

The concerns Google publicly outlined last week about the Online News Act are helpful, said Paul Deegan, head of News Media Canada, in a statement Thursday.