French Competition Authority fines Google

French Competition Authority fines Google — — -Brussels (Brussels Morning) France’s Competition Authority fined the US tech giant Google 500 million euro on Tuesday for the company’s failure to comply with instructions about talks with news publishers in the copyright disagreement.

The French regulator fined Google in the wake of the push to make digital platforms pay more to news publishers and gave the US company two months to propose compensation for the use of content released by publishers, Reuters reported.