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The Etats généraux de l’information : what for?

3rd October 20233rd October 2023 - 9:06 pm by Marcel Gay

For nine months, consumers and producers of journalistic information will be discussing the French press industry. Digital giants have long since unwittingly taken global control of news.

Nearly 6 billion euros of public money are invested each year in the media in France, or nearly 90 euros per capita. Hadrian/Shutterstock

Covid-19 : the troubled role of the media

16th January 2022 - 5:56 pm by Marcel Gay

Digital mass media and their algorithms are so powerful that they have taken control of ideas and opinions in the world by arbitrarily deciding what is true and what is false. Example with the health crisis.