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How Big Tech is changing journalism

DW English · Jun 24, 2026, 4:54 PM

Key takeaways

  • Technology companies are shaping how news is presented and digested, leaving media outlets little option but to comply.
  • https://p.dw.com/p/5G0Ow Love it or hate it?
  • 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.

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Technology companies are shaping how news is presented and digested, leaving media outlets little option but to comply. At DW's Global Media Forum in Bonn, participants discussed how to resist and adapt.

https://p.dw.com/p/5G0Ow Love it or hate it? The discussion on the relationship between journalism and Big Tech was polarising Image: Stephanie Englert/DWAdvertisement 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.

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