Google's assault on the news industry is also an assault on the truth. Why are regulators so slow to act?

"The same incorrect information is has also appeared Google’s AI Overviews, which appear at the top of search results." pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...

“Who has control over the algorithms that dictate what content goes onto people’s phones?”…We need to be effectively regulating those social media companies.”

Press release: Meta “drag their feet” on incitement in Africa, says South African regulator www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/11/14/m...

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US Big Tech monopolists will dominate Europe's AI sector unless governments take action. Foxglove's been calling on Germany's cartel regulator to act urgently, before it's too late: www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/09/18/a...

Important story from @restofworld.org - in the UK, like in Chile, the Government has also parroted the inflated claims made by Big Tech on how many jobs data centres will produce:

Big Tech's claims on job creation by data centres are massively over-inflated: "filings show the largest data centers have the potential to create only hundreds of full-time jobs, mostly in security and cleaning." restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...

"when people are worried about surveillance, of course, there are huge dangers there, but you know, you will have far fewer rights if America’s not in the lead.” -> should the UK Govt be handing contracts for public data to this billionaire? gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo... #Palantir

UN Secretary General says new data centres must be powered with new clean energy: "Technology must be part of the solution, not a new source of strain." unfccc.int/news/un-secr... #COP30 #Belem

Just one new data centre recently approved in London will use "1,610,528 MWh per year, equivalent to the annual consumption of approximately 530,000 homes" www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/11/07/l...

Election results as a warning for data centre developers - and the politicians and governments that support them:

New: a London council has approved a data centre that would use four times more electricity than all the homes in the borough: www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/11/07/l...

Is Palantir a firm that should be involved in the UK's NHS and other public services? Tell the UK Govt to think again: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pl...

"Palantir has embedded itself deeply and enthusiastically in some of the Trump administration’s most controversial activities, including ICE roundups and building the architecture for possible mass citizen surveillance." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Based in the UK? Join our call on the new Tech Secretary to pressure Meta to end its promotion of hatred and violence: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pe...

'Workers are expected to work steadily outside of break times, with the surveillance system alerting bosses to any unauthorised pause in productivity. This..has come under repeated scrutiny from politicians in the UK & US, as well as by workers’ rights groups & fair tech campaigners like Foxglove.'

"The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, & Google—and even the newer AI labs such as OpenAI—have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Last week, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social wrote to the UK's Energy Secretary to ask whether emissions caused by data centres will be included in the new carbon budget delivery plan: www.foxglove.org.uk/wp-content/u...

To secure a contract with the Israeli Govt, Amazon and Google "agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders"

Amazon is "engineering industry standards to downplay its water use and avert scrutiny, said Nathan Wangusi, a former water sustainability manager at the company." Important piece from @lukewbarratt.bsky.social & @rosafurneaux.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

@foxglovelegal.bsky.social supporters in action 👇 objecting to Google's NEW Thurrock data centre. 💪 Join them www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/th... Google's data centre will emit half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to 500 short-haul flights a week.

UK's proposed AI age estimation tools "completely unaccountable," warns Foxglove's @tmsqrll.bsky.social: www.context.news/ai/uk-use-of...

When Amazon Web Services goes down, so does basically a third of the entire internet. That’s as clear an example as you could hope to find of a market we all agree is critically important – our digital infrastructure – being fatally undermined by monopoly: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Scottish Water says it would be "a real concern" if they have to supply new, hyper scale data centres with water www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One planned data centre in Edinburgh will have emissions equivalent to the city's airport, but the council says no environmental impact assessment is needed: inews.co.uk/news/data-ce...

Despite Big Tech's claims, their data centres are mostly powered by dirty fuels: "While some developers are secretive about the breakdown of their data centres’ power mix, estimates suggest that fossil fuels are the largest contributor." www.ft.com/content/6e41...

Great write up of our report in Computer Weekly. We'll continue to urge gov to properly scrutinise data centre developers’ environmental claims. @foxglovelegal.bsky.social @globalactionplan.bsky.social www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322... (full report here www.foxglove.org.uk/wp-content/u...)

“Unless the government changes course, the result will be that Big Tech reaps the profits while the British public are left to pick up the tab, in terms of environmental damage, carbon emissions and soaring energy costs.” www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322...

"Plans to build 10 large data centres in the UK could effectively wipe out the carbon emissions saved by switching to electric cars in 2025, research has found." observer.co.uk/news/busines... via @theobserveruk.bsky.social

"Plans to build 10 large data centres in the UK could effectively wipe out the carbon emissions saved by switching to electric cars in 2025, research has found." observer.co.uk/news/busines... via @theobserveruk.bsky.social

New report: just 10 of the largest data centres currently planned for the UK would produce millions of tonnes of carbon emissions each year, wiping out the savings from the switch to electric cars: www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/10/05/r...

www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen... We @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and @globalactionplan.bsky.social are just £500 away from our fundraising target. Please share and donate if you can to help us get there!

“Underinvesting in platform safety has serious consequences,” says Martha Dark, the co-executive director of Foxglove... "Weakening moderation inevitably means violent and graphic content is left up for longer and spreads more quickly” theintercept.com/2025/09/24/c...

Should Big Tech be able to profit at the cost of our climate, water and energy supplies? Should the UK Govt be helping them to do so? Join our challenge here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen...

Foxglove's @marthadark.bsky.social was at the UK's Labour party conference this week to warn about the environmental costs of Big Tech's data centres:

ICYMI: New UK AI investment comes with a cost - your bills and our climate www.context.news/ai/opinion/u...

there is a “total lack of transparency and accountability” about existing UK data centres and their environmental impact. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Thanks again to @takeoneaction.bsky.social for a great event last night, which ran three short films exploring the hidden labour of our tech infrastructures. Great to speak w/ @foxglovelegal.bsky.social too. Below is a checklist to get more involved in tech labour/justice/de-Googling your life.

⛓️‍💥 DISMANTLING TECH FANTASIES 🌐 Our programmer shares a highlight from our Edinburgh festivals, a shorts programme about interrogating the false promises of AI. Screening at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Saturday 20th September, 3PM! www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/disman...

Germany's anti-cartel office warns on threat of US Big Tech dominance: "it is crucial now to identify potential abuses at an early stage and to ensure open markets for AI" www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/09/18/c...

Trump and his Big Tech cronies want to carpet the UK in polluting data centres - and the UK Government wants to help them. Help us stop them pushing through destructive data centres without a thought for the costs: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen...

US Big Tech boss says he's "hoping for more" polluting gas plants to be built in the UK - to power a vast expansion of the data centres that drive his profits. The UK Govt needs to reject this completely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amid the UK Govt's enthusiastic announcement of deals with Trump and Big Tech, it's worth remembering the clearly stated aims of Trump's 'AI Action Plan': The "unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance" of the US: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals. Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU

Google "declined to comment" on their own figures showing their planned data centre would create half a million tonnes of carbon emissions every year - equivalent to several international airports: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump and his Big Tech allies want to roll out vast data centres across the UK, at huge cost to our climate, water and energy supplies. The UK Govt is backing them, without a thought for the environment - help us take action: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen... #Trump #StateVisit

Happy 10th birthday to @freiheitsrechte.org

Just one of these new Big Tech data centres will produce more than half a million tonnes of carbon emissions every year - new research by Foxglove finds: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...