Politico is owned by the german Axel Springer SE, a publisher that also owns Bild, Fakt (polish) and Welt among others.

The publisher and its news outlets (with the aforementioned Bild, Fakt and Welt most prominent) is a main driver for a news coverage and reporting that is jointly responsible for the rise of the far right in Germany and Europe.

Politico itself has published so-called Native Ads, a form of advertisng that is designed like op-ed articles and other opinion pieces in a way that is hard to differeentiate from regular, non-sponsored content, mostly for fossile fuel companies but also healt insurance, finance and weapons industries. (Source 1, Source 2).

That sums up to a news outlet that should not be shared, not be trusted and hence, not be posted here. It was not an issue mostly since this outlet wasn't posted here often , but recently, Politico articles are getting posted very frequently again, so I suggest the ban now.

Edit: lost a word

Edit 2: it should be noted that there is another publisher with a similar name (Springer Nature with several subsidiaries), but that company os not affiliated with Axel Springer SE and has different issues.

The publisher and its news outlets (with the aforementioned Bild, Fakt and Welt most prominent) is a main driver for a news coverage and reporting that is jointly responsible for the rise of the far right in Germany and Europe.

Is there any proof for that? I keep hearing the claim often but never once is any kind of proof presented.

Like, if you see an article marked "sponsored" by UnitedHealthcare and then take everything they say at face value, that's just because the reader's dumb.

Do you know what "native advertisement" is?

What do you want to have evidence for? That BILD is Germany's medium reaching the most people? Here, evidence. That repitition of positions influences people's opinions? Yep, proven. That BILD distributes right wind populism? Tadaa. Now put the puzzle together, it's not hard.

yeah BILD is well known for that. but what about Welt?

no

Same, but nicer words. Also well known for that.

Yeah, thought so.

These ads reduce a consumer's ad recognition by blending the ad into the native content of the platform, even if it is labeled as "sponsored" or "branded" content.[6] Readers may have difficulty immediately identifying them as advertisements due to their ambiguous nature, especially when deceptive labels such as "From around the web" are used.

not my experience