• phneutral@feddit.org
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      16 days ago

      Politico was bought bei conservative German publisher Axel Springer SE some years ago. Their tabloid Bild is populist to right-wing. They have ties to German car manufacturers and other uber rich. CEO Döpfner is for example friends with Peter Thiel afaik.

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        15 days ago

        Okay, so politico then can be discarded as reliable. I mean, it’s soort of independent ish still, but I don’t trust it to be that forever.

        Going to stick with the Jacobin and Freedom (the British journal).

    • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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      The main sources of revenue are advertising, event sponsorship and paid subscriptions with nearly half coming from the subscription business.[10]

      from Wikipedia

      ‘event sponsorship’ is where you probably want to dig into to see where the money is being funneled