Article 18 of the European Media Freedom Act presents a paradox: instead of mitigating platforms’ power over media freedom, it risks institutionalising and reinforcing it by allowing them to shape the regulation’s implementation.
News and Research articles on European Media Freedom Act (EMFA)
The DSA, DMA, and EMFA aim to regulate platform power over digital services and markets while establishing rules to protect media freedom, pluralism, and editorial independence, notably through efforts to address media concentration; however, they seem to overlook some of the underlying causes driving these concentration threats.