How Big Tech's dominance is reshaping journalism and threatening media independence
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Stephanie Höppner
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The article examines how Big Tech companies (Google, Meta, Apple, etc.) have fundamentally reshaped journalism over the past two decades — controlling how news is produced, distributed, and consumed through search engines, social media, and AI. It reports on discussions at DW's Global Media Forum in Bonn, where media professionals and policymakers explored how news organizations and governments can preserve their independence and resist the overwhelming influence of tech giants, which now extends into the political sphere through election involvement and government pressure.
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· 3 pulledIt's been about two decades since the largest information technology companies started making decisions about how ordinary people get their news — how news is made, how it is disseminated and how it is received.
The influence of these tech giants reaches beyond media into the political sphere, as the heads of these influential companies get involved in elections and put governments under pressure.
So how can media and the state in general preserve their independence in a scenario where technology companies are shaping how news is presented and digested, leaving media outlets little option but to comply?
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