Last year, Google launched an intense, $10.7 million lobbying effort to derail lawmakers’ plans to regulate tech giants and divert proceeds to the struggling news industry, Cal Matters reported.

A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state's struggling journalism industry is already on track to shrink -- ...

A Google data center in Iowa. (File photo courtesy Google) A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state’s struggling journalism industry is ...

A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state’s struggling journalism industry is already on track to shrink — before any of the money has been ...

A California court just declared that Google will have to pay $314.6 million to Android phone users in the state as ...

A California court delivered a strong fine to Google over its "misuse" of Android users' data over cell connections.

A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state’s struggling journalism industry is already on track to shrink — before any of the money has been ...

A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state’s struggling journalism industry is already on track to shrink — before any of the money has been ...

A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state’s struggling journalism industry is already on track to shrink — before any of the money has ...