Alice Stollmeyer<p>"Independent <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> are not the partners of <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a>; they are their clients. They rely on off-the-shelf solutions for their entire <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> from cloud computing provision to data analytics. This infrastructural dependency raises questions over their capacity to stay autonomous in a digital space increasingly characterized by state intervention, monopolization, and commercial demands that don’t always fit the public values upheld by independent media."</p><p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.techpolicy.press/independent-media-has-an-infrastructural-problem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techpolicy.press/independent-m</span><span class="invisible">edia-has-an-infrastructural-problem/</span></a></p>