France orders Meta back to talks with news publishers over content payments

France's competition authority (Autorité de la concurrence) has ordered Meta to resume negotiations with French news publishers over payments for their content, giving the company 15 days to present a concrete payment proposal. The regulator labeled Meta's fee calculation methods a probable abuse of its dominant position, elevating the dispute into competition law territory with serious penalty implications. The case centers on neighbouring rights — an EU legal concept allowing news outlets to demand payment when platforms use their journalism. French publishers including Le Figaro, Libération, and Radio France filed complaints after earlier talks collapsed. France has a track record of enforcing these rules aggressively, having previously fined Google €250m over similar issues. The outcome could set a precedent for how platforms calculate publisher payments across the EU.

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