It'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, with their domination of everything from search engines to social media and more recently artificial intelligence.
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 like this? And what kinds of relationships should journalists have with the five so-called Big Tech companies: Alphabet (Google's parent company), Apple, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft? At German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle's annual event, the Global Media Forum, which began Tuesday in Bonn, this was a leading question.
Fake videos about robot soldiers in China generated by AI: Disinformation remains a major challengeImage: imago / X
Media preparing 'for battle'
