The Big Tech Lobby Playbook

How Big Tech’s power has rewritten digital rules globally

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Big Tech giants have developed a powerful playbook to shape laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.

Our Big Tech Lobby Playbook series explores their tools and strategies through 6 case studies from Australia, Brazil, India, the EU, Kenya and the US.

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#BigTech #SocialMedia #Lobby #Meta #X #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok #LeaveX #SaveSocial

The Big Tech Lobby Playbook - Rewriting digital rules globally - SOMO

This series of articles by SOMO dives into specific examples of Big Tech lobbying and how they helped shape laws and politics in their favour.

^SOMO

Which EU country will be the first to officially move its public institutions to a national Mastodon instance, bringing political debate to the Fediverse and away from disinformation platforms like X?

We know some national-level instances already exist (e.g. in Germany). The question is: who will make it a political decision, not just a technical one?

If you think of another country, add it in the comments 👇

#LeaveX #EU #Democracy #Mastodon #Fediverse

• Ireland (18%, 37 votes)
• Austria (4%, 9 votes)
• France (53%, 111 votes)
• Germany (23%, 49 votes)

"I deras beräkning av nytta och kostnad finns det nytta, men ingen kostnad"

"Dessa aktörer saknar antingen medvetenhet eller så är de amoraliska."

"De människor som är beslutsfattare för huruvida man ska ”vara på X” eller inte är marknadsförare, de är inte humanister eller demokratins väktare. Vi behöver tala ett språk som de förstår. Solkat rykte, förlorad popularitet, skadat varumärke."

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#leaveX #lämnaX

Angående X

Mata monstret och monstret växer sig starkare. Skär av monstrets tillgång till föda, syre och vatten. Monstret blir svagare, förtvinar och dör.

^{Den nya kontinenten}

For those ~500 new followers in the last week, here is our main reasoning why the argument that you have to stay on social networks to provide opposition is complete nonsense

leavex.eu/posts/why-stay-on-so…

If you agree, please share. This is mainly for those of you who still have or know of representatives on X, whatever their reason may be.

#LeaveX #HateSpeech #BigTech

Thanks to @jens, we now have the data from the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen). We have 230 of 349 MPs are active on X (66%).

You can already contact them!

leavex.eu/politicians-se/

P. S., We have added the full party name so that you can filter by party.

#LeaveX #Sweden #OpenSource

Ralph Schallmeiner, a member of the Austrian parliament, emailed to inform us that his X account was deleted nearly two weeks ago.

From 19% to 18% still on X. Now, 33 MPs in Austria still need to leave X.

#LeaveX #Austria

The campaign Leave X has 3000 signatories this far.

Now the org has developed a new tool that tracks which European members of Parliament are still on active on X. You can also filter on specific countries and so on. This is an excellent move from the campaign and this organization.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) · Leave X - Protect Democracy
leavex.eu/politicians/

#EuPol, #LeaveX, #X, #Twitter, #EU, #DiDay, #DigitalIndepence

Who the fuck would want to use social media with a built-in child abuse tool?

Delete your X account.

#LeaveX #UK #Grok #ChildAbuse