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.

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When Elon Musk rolled back Grok safeguards, he enabled millions of people to be victimized. Shamefully, governments did little to protect their citizens.

The X deepfake scandal shows why we need far stricter social media regulation as a stepping stone to new platforms — not just higher age limits.

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#tech #socialmedia #elonmusk #x #twitter #grok #deepfake #ai #generativeai

X shows why stricter tech regulation is necessary

We need comprehensive rules on social media far more than age limits

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

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

”Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W”

What is this? Identification, photo validation?

When the Fediverse is already here?

This is going to be DOA

#w #x #mastodon #fediverse #chatcontrol #europe #EUPOL #technology

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Var skrev du det här då? omni.se/ministern-efter-avsloj…

#svpol #x #clown

Ministern efter avslöjandet: ”Total galenskap”

”Total galenskap” – så beskriver Simona Mohamsson (L) SVT:s avslöjande om sexbrottsdömda män som avtjänar samhällstjänst bland barn.

^{Hannah Gustafsson (Omni)}