Freeland Sees Issue With Government Funding of Media, Says Big Tech Should Pay

Freeland Sees Issue With Government Funding of Media, Says Big Tech Should Pay
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland arrives for a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 18, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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While speaking at a security forum in the United States, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland expressed concerns about media being overly funded by the government and said that tech companies should foot the bill instead.

“I think there’s a real challenge with news organizations deriving a great deal of their revenue from the public sector, from the government,” said Ms. Freeland while addressing the Aspen Security Forum on July 21, as part of a session with Politico’s editor-in-chief Matthew Kaminski.