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US: Ocasio-Cortez comments on Big Tech companies

By  |  January 28, 2019

According to a report from CNN, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said this week that tech companies had too much power and that “the current monopoly trend is societally and economically unsustainable.”

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    Ocasio-Cortez’s comments came in the aftermath of layoffs at a number of number of news organizations, including BuzzFeed and HuffPost.

    “The biggest threats to journalism right now are tech monopolies & concentration of ownership,” she tweeted on Saturday, adding: “The fact of the matter is the current monopoly trend is societally & economically unsustainable. We can’t simply accept the cliché that ‘journalism is dying.’ Journalism will only die if we choose not to fight for it – and if journalism dies, our democracy will, too.”

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