> much ink was spilled showing how no European paper would take on a corporation strong government support
Could you provide some examples of this? I know it's possible in the UK to get a court order to prevent media coverage, but I didn't know that was the case in other European countries.
I was thinking of the Wirecard scandal in Germany. The regulators responded to concerns by silencing silencing critics of the company.
I read either "defamation" or "libel" somewhere, but this article says:
[German regulators] banned investors from betting against Wirecard shares for two months, the first such restriction on an individual company in German stock market history. That was quickly followed by a criminal complaint against two Financial Times journalists who had reported the whistleblower allegations about the payments company.
Could you provide some examples of this? I know it's possible in the UK to get a court order to prevent media coverage, but I didn't know that was the case in other European countries.