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“If there is not a real, sufficient and big business model on the search-driven side … and there is no business model at all on the social [media] side, the number of content producers will deteriorate fast,” he says. “You will have a monopoly of content distribution that will be mainly driven by user-generated content, and by professional content by commercially interested players. You will have a total mix-up of rumours and facts — a pretty traumatic scenario of information or propaganda. It will be very painful for democracies.”
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