The project’s funding comes from Academy of Finland, “a government agency within the administrative branch of the Finnish Ministry of Education, Science and Culture”. Secondly, the project builds on the foundation laid by a smaller research project titled Big Tech and the EU (2023–2025). This project was funded the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation, which aims to “advance and support excellence in research as a means of insuring the broad base, independence, and continuity of Finnish scientific work”, and which gets its income from the proceeds of its investment capital. This investment capital has originally been accumulated decades ago from the profits of the biggest media group in Finland, Sanoma Osakeyhtiö. It is the publisher of Finland’s biggest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.
