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c/europe · by General_Effort@lemmy.world · 17d

Peter Thiel to Receive the 2026 Axel Springer Award

https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/peter-thiel-to-receive-the-2026-axel-springer-award

Axel Springer SE is a European multinational mass and online media company, based in Berlin, Germany. The company is organized as a societas Europaea (SE) publishing house and is one of the largest mass media publishers in the European Union, with numerous multimedia news brands such as Business Insider, Politico, The Daily Telegraph, or the price comparison service Idealo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE

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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 17d (6 replies)

If there's any sign that Axel Springer is aligned with this fascist, it's this one.

plyth@feddit.org · 9 pts · 16d

No need for signs: https://feddit.org/post/32811747

The announcement left out another important fact: Thiel reportedly made a $50 million investment in a new venture capital fund started by the son of Mathias Döpfner, Axel Springer’s co-owner and CEO. The son, Moritz, is known as—get this—the “German JD Vance.” Moritz previously worked as chief of staff at Thiel Capital.

CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 17d

They‘re aligned with a lot of fascists. This is just one more.

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 13d (2 replies)

The announcement left out another important fact: Thiel reportedly made a $50 million investment in a new venture capital fund started by the son of Mathias Döpfner, Axel Springer's co-owner and CEO. The son, Moritz, is known as—get this—the “German JD Vance.” Moritz previously worked as chief of staff at Thiel Capital.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-snags-top-prize-from-politicos-owner/

Also, we've known for ages that the Springer group is aligned with fascists...

birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 13d (1 reply)

And this is why capitalism must be broken. The playing field is inherently elitarian and unfair.

Carighan@piefed.world · 2 pts · 13d

Nah it's enough to break specifically just the legs and larynx of these people in particular. Capitalism as a whole is a bonus, but not a requirement.

Carighan@piefed.world · 2 pts · 13d

Axel Springer can rightfully say they've been a significant part of the rise of neonazis in all their iterations up to and including the AfD in Germany throughout the decades. This is just one more guy, who in fact paid to get this award.

derAbsender@piefed.social · 29 pts · 17d

"This newspaper is an organ of vileness. It is wrong to read it. Anyone who contributes to this newspaper is socially absolutely unacceptable. It would be a mistake to be friendly or even just polite to one of its editors. One must be as unfriendly to them as the law just barely allows. They are bad people who do wrong things." - Max Goldt about Bild Newspaper - the evil garbage Springer somehow successfully disguises as some sort of print medium

notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 17d

That’s two parties that fit well together 😳 Right wing newspaper group (steadily becoming more extreme), which also owns politico in the US, and a right wing investor business weirdo.

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 17d

Passt wie Arsch auf Eimer

CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 17d (4 replies)

Did you really need to link to an Axel Springer source? Couldn't you find any other article talking about this but this fascists-supporting excuse for toilet paper?

pulsey@feddit.org · 8 pts · 17d (2 replies)

This is literally about an award given out by Axel Springer. This IS the original source.

CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 17d (1 reply)

I still don't want to click on an Axel Springer link.

CaptObvious@literature.cafe · 9 pts · 17d

Then don’t?

General_Effort@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d

There are no ads on that site. It is a press release by the company and not a press report. They make no money of your clicks.

germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 17d

Ass recognizes ass

PromKingJosh@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 9 pts · 17d (1 reply)

If you go to the Ringier Axel Springer website for your country, chances are they list the news outlets they own there, like this for Poland

I've since replaced all of them with getting news from national news agencies or independent outlets instead (PAP.pl, European Correspondent, Notes from Poland) etc.

huppakee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 17d

Or on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringier_Axel_Springer_Media_AG (for all outlets in Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Hungary) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE (English and German language outlets)

spechter@feddit.org · 5 pts · 17d (1 reply)

I whonder what politico has to say about this?

Do they dare critisizing their parent company?

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 13d

Probably not. Definitely not with US labor laws.

Upon acquisition of Insider in 2015, and again in 2021 with Politico, Mathias Döpfner allegedly stated that staff would need to adhere to Axel Springer’s principles, including support for a united Europe, “reconciliation between Germans and Jews”, Israel’s right to exist, and a free-market economy, and that staff who disagree with the principles “should not work for Axel Springer, very clearly”.

Demanding such a pledge - instead of objectivity - from any journalist is bad, very bad.

botbot@feddit.org · 4 pts · 17d (1 reply)

Idealo also belongs to this shit company?

huppakee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d

Can't be bothered to get to the bottom of this but i was reading Axel Springers Wikipedia page (history section) and it seems they removed themselves from the stock exchange and sold off a large chunk of their business to their two largest investors in order to become fully privately owned. Not sure if they still holds a stake in that split-off part, but that seems to be the part Idealo belongs to.

In July 2024, reports emerged that Axel Springer and private equity group KKR were in talks to potentially split the media conglomerate. The proposed deal would separate the group's media assets, including Politico, Business Insider, Bild, and Die Welt, from its digital classifieds operations such as StepStone and Aviv. The split was confirmed in September 2024 and Axel Springer became a fully privately owned and operated media company.

newton@feddit.online · 3 pts · 17d

How Mutch did he pay for the award ?

Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14d (1 reply)

Unsurprisingly, the more money you accumulate, the greater your capacity to extend your tentacles into a vast network. Anyone else would do the same.

General_Effort@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d

Hah. I don't even know if you mean Thiel or the guy behind Axel Springer.

xenomor@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 17d (1 reply)

Hmm. German. So, should I just assume Nazi then? If so, this tracks.

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 17d

Axel Springer is the nazi supporting tabloit publisher, yes