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‘Renting your enemy’: How Google paid the media millions to avoid regulatory pressure

Google has signed more than 2,000 contracts with news outlets worldwide in the past five years

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Google has signed thousands of deals with media outlets through its news licensing program, Google News Showcase. (Illustration by Matheus Pigozzi)

Carly Penrose
Carly Penrose

Carly is a Toronto-based journalist. She holds a master of journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her work has appeared in the National Post, This Magazine and The Canadian Press.

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