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Media and digital culture

The Commission supports the digital transformation and competitiveness of the audiovisual and media sector in order to stimulate access to quality content and media pluralism.

The move to digital has brought with it new ways of experiencing the world around us. We can access news wherever we are from a wide choice of sources and platforms. A vast range of different movies, TV and radio shows produced in Europe are now available to an increasingly wide audience.

However, this era has brought with it new challenges. Disinformation spreads faster online than it ever did in the offline world, with potentially damaging consequences while journalists and media outlets face various obstacles in several countries. Media service providers may find their content unfairly removed by very large online platforms or not easily accessible in user interfaces. 

Over the past few years, the EU has stepped up its work in this field to address many of these challenges with actions such as: 

 

 

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  • Digibyte
  • 27 June 2025

The latest Media Pluralism Monitor report, published by the independent Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), places most EU Member States in the medium risk category for media freedom and pluralism.

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