How Media Concentration in the Age of Radio Prefigured Today’s Big Tech Debate
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Should a few tech giants define what is true and worth knowing? Without them having to be held accountable, unlike media outlets like Ekstra Bladet, Politiken and Jyllands-Posten, which are covered by the Media Responsibility Act.
How Media Concentration in the Age of Radio Prefigured Today’s Big Tech Debate
In the 1930s, staffers at the newly established Federal Communications Commission devised a novel rationale for limiting network power in radio, telephony, and the press. While much has changed since the “age of radio,” the concerns they raised inform the present-day debate over the control that social media platforms exert over public discourse, writes Richard R. John.
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