Newsom caught between Big Tech and Hollywood over online age checks Highlight

The measure boasts support from giants including Google and Meta, which sparred over similar legislation in other states, after extensive haggling over amendments.

But eleventh-hour opposition from California’s film industry threatens to sink the whole plan. And if Newsom crosses them, it could undermine recent moves to position himself as the savior of a struggling Hollywood — a title President Donald Trump has tried to wrest from the governor.