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00:31They cannot be truly independent from their employers either.
00:35Journalists who want to work independently of political power and business interests
00:39increasingly turn to digital journalism.
00:42However, when journalism moves to social media,
00:45it encounters another non-transparent but much bigger wall.
00:49A global corporation with its own financial relationships with governments.
00:54On ex-formularly Twitter, dozens of accounts are being blocked each day in Turkey
00:59at the request of the government, often within hours.
01:02Profiles of journalists, activists, feminists, academics are facing censorship.
01:08At the same time, disinformation, hate speech, personal attacks and harassment
01:13are allowed to circulate freely under the guise of news.
01:17In other words, the owner of a social media platform can effectively decide
01:21both who is able to access which information and what is recognized as news in the first place.
01:27For this reason, today, protecting press freedom also requires us to work together
01:32to ensure that those global corporations are subject to effective oversight.
01:38National measures or even regional measures, such as those adopted by the European Union,
01:44can provide only limited and temporary solutions to what is ultimately a global challenge.
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