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by rcMgD2BwE72F 2394 days ago
You need to fork this: https://github.com/mdiplo/Medias_francais

Google Translate:

>French media: who owns what?

>Property relations between the French media and their main shareholders

>The data is organized in two tables:

>1. 'medias_francais.tsv' contains all shareholders (natural or legal persons) and media represented on the map

>2. 'relations_medias_francais.tsv' details the capital links between these shareholders and the groups or media they own

>Last updated November, 2019

>Technical indication: for those who wish to participate in updating the database by making a pull request, make sure that the file is encoded in UTF-8 with unix line breaks so that we can merge it all without conflict.

Edit: I wish this was all added to Wikidata so we can chart this for every country but also map the transnational stake-holding.

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I use the NewsGuard (I admit they're far from perfect) browser plugin and there's an alarming number of news stories that are broken by entities that have virtually all of the green check marks except that they conceal the ownership and financing of their newspaper.