See title. Axel Springer bought Politico, and it has ties to the CIA, having received $7 million from them, as well tries to force Politico employees into supporting the genocidal apartheid state (Israel).
They also lack journalistic integrity in that they doxed freedom activists, such as those from Palestina.
There’s more in here.
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55154354
Get a DNS blocklist for all Axel Springer related media, so you don’t need to bother.
Against. The fediverse is already a very left leaning set of forums, no need to start banning non left wing news sources now.
It’s actually not only about the political leaning of the outlet’s articles. I wouldn’t care about Politico in that regard.
It is, however, about who profits off of Politico articles being shared and clicked, and that is Axel Springer SE, a right wing populist publisher who owns tabloids like german BILD and polish Fakt and uses those to help the rise of right wing populism and extremism in Europe, attacking our democratic societies. Axel Springer SE is in turn owned by Mathias Döpfner, who for example called JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he called for an end of the isolation of Europe’s far right, “inspiring”.
The question is, do we continue to click on links that make money by showing ads when that money they make off of us fuels antidemocratic engagement?
It would be way more productive to just use an adblocker. And I’d kinda expect everyone to do so already.
Exactly!