alpha centauri
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It does not matter if it is left or right. Google and Facebook are manipulating, what they want.proof that is the reason?
They can change whole elections.
Quote of "Die Zeit" a liberal or left-liberal newspaper:
automatic translation:
The crisis in the media industry is structurally so vast and politically so dangerous because digital platform capitalism, unlike its analog predecessors, tends to form global monopolies. Leveraging the network effects of the Internet on one side of their market - where their services are free - Google and Facebook have already eliminated competition. Thanks to the efficient marketing of their billions of customers, they are now ready to establish an oligopoly on the other side of the digital advertising business. Google and Facebook, because they operate in two-sided markets, can bring private media companies to the brink of ruin.
Extremely problematic is that they do not replace the information and communication functions of classical media: they do not produce news, hardly check information and do not hold debates. They make no active contribution to an enlightened political opinion forming, yes drive by secret algorithms their users in veritable opinion pens.
That is why recent developments are a threat to democracy. The last bastion that can not be dragged by them are the public service media.