Google fined €500m in France for failure to seek news content deal with publishers 

Google has been handed France's second-largest antitrust fine. 

Google has been fined €500m in France after the search giant failed to follow an order to thrash out a fair deal with publishers to use their news content on its platform.

The Alphabet-owned company ignored a 2020 decision to negotiate in good faith for displaying snippets of articles on its Google News service, the Autorité de la concurrence said. The fine is the second-biggest antitrust penalty in France for a single company.