--- title: "France orders Meta back to talks with news publishers over content payments" url: https://daily.dev/posts/france-orders-meta-back-to-talks-with-news-publishers-over-content-payments-zliyxrriv source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/france-orders-meta-resume-publisher-talks type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-07-08T12:53:04.465Z updated: 2026-07-08T12:53:52.596Z reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # France orders Meta back to talks with news publishers over content payments **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [French media ask the competition watchdog to make Google pay for its AI answers](https://daily.dev/posts/french-media-ask-the-competition-watchdog-to-make-google-pay-for-its-ai-answers-wsz78xhfb) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Denmark steps into an EU court fight over what platforms owe publishers](https://daily.dev/posts/denmark-steps-into-an-eu-court-fight-over-what-platforms-owe-publishers-58zs2pix4) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/france-orders-meta-back-to-talks-with-news-publishers-over-content-payments-zliyxrriv)