Independent and reader-funded media, fact-checking, encyclopedias and science communication.
Most of these media are paid for by their readers through subscriptions or donations, and some carry no advertising at all. Fact-checkers, Wikipedia and science channels are here too, for checking a claim before sharing it.
ARTE.tv is the free streaming site and app of ARTE, the Franco-German public cultural channel: live TV, catch-up, documentaries, films, series, concerts and reports, with no subscription and no…
Alternative to Netflix, Prime Video and other paid streaming services
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Mediapart is a French online newspaper known for its investigations, funded only by its subscribers, with no advertising. It is an alternative to free news sites that live on ads, and to media owned…
Alternative to free news sites full of advertising, and media owned by industrial groups
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The taz is a national daily newspaper from Berlin, founded in 1978, that belongs to a cooperative of more than 26,000 readers, so no publisher or investor can buy it. Its website has no paywall…
Alternative to news sites that live from clicks and advertising, and newspapers owned by billionaires and media groups
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PeerTube is free, open-source software for sharing videos, developed by the French non-profit Framasoft, on which anyone can run a video platform that connects with the others, so there is no single…
Alternative to YouTube and its ads, recommendation algorithm and single owner
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Datan is a free website that shows how each member of the French National Assembly and each parliamentary group votes, from the Assembly’s own open data. A reader can check an MP’s actual votes on…
Alternative to what MPs and parties say about their own votes
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NosParlementaires is a free website that tracks the work of the 577 French MPs and 348 senators: their votes, amendments, written and oral questions, bills, reports and declared interests. It is…
Alternative to what MPs, senators and parties say about their own work in parliament
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Honest news and reliable knowledge
Culture: books, music, films and streaming
Search engines, social networks and messengers
Digital services, software and devices
Political participation and citizens’ initiatives