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But the truth is that it’s never been more difficult for independent journalism online.
Big Tech giants like Google, Meta, and Apple increasingly control what people see online in their news feeds and search results, and too many of the people who run these tech monopolies openly disregard the value of journalism.
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Over the last decade and a half, a tiny handful of social media companies, search engines, and Big Tech giants have asserted ever more control over the flow of traffic on the internet.
Their track record when it comes to promoting quality news and reliable information about current events has been mixed, to put it very, very generously.
Who among us feels good about the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, or the bigwigs at Google setting the agenda for public policy debates or deciding which news outlets people should see and read?
Their incentives are to drive profit, not truth, and far more money can be made appealing to the basest impulses of the human psyche than the higher values of truth and justice.
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