fter crushing the advertising business on which most media companies had historically relied, Google decided it was time to do something to remedy the mortal blow it had dealt to the journalistic industry, a pillar of any functioning democracy. The tech giant spent over $300 million funding media projects through the Google News Initiative, a project that should help “quality publications to flourish.” Yet such flourishing isn’t happening—at least not in Latin America, where high-quality independent media struggle to survive. One of the fists strangling them? The Google SEO standards.
Origen: How Google is suffocating independent journalism in Latin America – Columbia Journalism Review
