Channel 4 boss calls for TV industry to unite against profit-seeking ‘tech titans’

Tara Conlan - TheGuardian - 30/01
Alex Mahon accuses firms such as TikTok, Meta and YouTube of ‘wanton abandonment of the pursuit of truth’

The head of Channel 4 has called on the television industry to unite to battle the “wanton abandonment of the pursuit of truth” by “tech titans” seeking profits.

Alex Mahon said tech giants are so “hellbent” on making money from “what they deem to be free speech that they are perfectly happy to eradicate truth and facts along the way”.

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