heise online

heise online is Germany's leading IT and tech news site, owned by the family-run Heise Gruppe and funded mainly through advertising and subscriptions. It is not aligned with a U.S. political camp but has a consistent editorial lean toward digital rights, data protection, and skepticism of government surveillance and censorship. Its coverage of the Trump administration mostly concerns tech and trade policy (tariffs, chip export controls, AI rules, data-privacy disputes) and tends to be matter-of-fact with an undercurrent of concern over policies seen as harming an open internet or European tech interests, rather than broad partisan criticism or support.