“The proposition Al Jazeera presented to the audience: that it was going to be ‘voice of the voiceless’, and also that it was giving a space that was antagonistic – let’s say, not intentionally, purposefully – but it was antagonistic to the powers that be: those governments and regimes that didn’t want the people to hear another alternative. Where we are today, that power shifted from governments to big tech. One of the clearest crystallization of this: when you look at that photo of Trump with the people around him, and they’re all owners of those biggest tech companies…”
🎧 #TheTake’s host, Malika Bilal, hears from Jamal Elshayyal, Director, Al Jazeera Digital News Content Global at Web Summit Qatar.
