What would happen if Facebook or Google decided tomorrow to follow the Australian example and leave the Netherlands because they do not agree with the direction in which the debates around the Digital Service Acts are evolving? A thought experiment so far, and yet the experience of Australia and the power play between government and tech giants has shown us that it can become reality all of a sudden. Where would that leave governments and the Dutch news sector that in so many ways depend on the big tech companies.
The panel is co-organized by the Amsterdam AI, Media & Democracy Lab and the City of Amsterdam.
A conversation featuring Marietje Schaake (Stanford), Alexandra Borchardt (Reuters Institute, University of Oxford), Johan Oomen (Beeld & Geluid), Ger Baron (City of Amsterdam), Hella Hueck (Financieel Dagblad) & Mark Deuze (Journalism and Media Culture, UvA), as well as the City of Amsterdam and the AI, Media & Democracy Lab.
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What is the goal and/or outcome of your session?:With the help of this thought experiment, experts, together with the audience, will map the state of entanglement between platforms and news sector today, identify positive synergies between platforms & news, identify critical dependencies, and what the sector itself, as well as law & policy can do to prevent a second Australian showdown. The resulting insights will be used to draft suggestions for an innovation and R&D agenda.
CTO, City of Amsterdam
Alexandra is a senior journalist, book author, journalism professor and media adviser. Her work centres around journalism, the media, digital transformation and its impact on democracy, freedom and human behaviour.