How can our news media be safeguarded against the market power of domineering search engines, social media giants, and other so-called ‘big tech’ players mediating the digital economy? This is a classic public interest matter since the quality, diversity, and sustainability of publishers is of direct and immediate consequence to a user of digital news.
The numerous imbalances and fractures that scar the relationship between news publishers and technology platforms, are captured in two baskets of concerns: the absence of Fair Valuation (a matter of compensation), and that of Enumerative Accountability (a matter of transparency).
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