Data centers dominated headlines in 2025, and not for the right reasons. Across the country, local communities are fighting back against Big Tech’s broken promises. Don’t be fooled: these projects aren’t a “boon.” They’re a bust. 👎

This fall, we launched our first-ever Q&A series with @reedforcongress.bsky.social: attorney, advocate, and congressional candidate in Illinois’ 7th District. 🇺🇸 If you missed it, catch up below, and stay tuned for more in 2026. 👀 newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

Looking for a refresher on all the ways Big Tech “bent the knee” for the current administration in 2025? 🤔 Look no further than Devindra Hardawar’s wrap-up piece below:

Merry Christmas from NextGen! 🎄🎁 In a year of corporate power grabs and Big Tech flattery, we fought back with facts, with resolve, and with you. Thanks for standing with us in 2025. Let’s make 2026 the year we turn the tide. 💪🏼

Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄 Do you know what Amazon should receive under the tree this year? Coal. Kudos @ilsr.bsky.social for this timely and necessary report exposing the tech giant’s latest antics ⬇️

ICYMI: Last week, we dropped this year's final edition of Top Hat & Thimble, which includes @sumitecon.bsky.social's year-end take, our 2025 Antitrust Scoreboard, and stories that defined the fight. 💪🏼 newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

As 2025 winds down, Big Tech is buying influence, dodging scrutiny, and consolidating AI power. In this year's final edition of Top Hat & Thimble, check out @sumitecon.bsky.social's year-end take, our 2025 Scoreboard, and stories that defined the fight. newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

President Trump's AI executive order mostly protects tech’s interests while undercutting state efforts to regulate AI meaningfully. Corporate winners get uniform rules, while consumers and competition lose..yet again. 😒 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Fixed it for you! Jim Jordan is having another sham hearing today - as I wrote in @commondreams.org he is Big Tech’s Most Effective Lobbyist. ⬇️ What a waste of taxpayer dollars!

We’re building a fairer tech future, one that works for consumers, workers, and small businesses, not monopolists. That means stronger antitrust enforcement and real accountability for Big Tech. 💪🏼 Join us: nextgencomp.tech

Love this from Crunchbase News. This year has been largely disappointing for holding tech giants accountable, and the Meta decision was no exception. 😒 news.crunchbase.com/policy-regul...

The @nytimes.com Editorial Board nails it: President Trump may claim to stand for the working man, but his administration clearly caters to corporate interests instead. 💸 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...

Big Tech flattery is running rampant, particularly in the form of AI dollars. 💵 On a recent episode of The Source, David Martin Davies gets into it with @brennancenter.org's Ian Vandewalker, discussing all things Big Tech, money, and politics. Listen here 🎙️ www.tpr.org/podcast/the-...

Big Tech’s playbook? It includes: 📊 Encouraging market concentration 📲 Limiting consumer choice 👩‍💼 Undermining worker protections and employer accountability 🔏 Threatening data privacy and security Enough. Join the fight: nextgencomp.tech

Recent outcomes may dampen expectations, but make no mistake: Google is, was, and will remain a monopolist without real intervention. ⚖️ It’s long past time to break up Big Tech. Consumers, competition, and innovation will all benefit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...

Unfortunately, Brian Boyle is right. Tech giants see every hand-slap as an invitation to do more damage. 😒 Read the full story: www.thedailyupside.com/technology/b...

One word to describe Zuck: yuck. 🤢 Meta executives should be ashamed of themselves.

ICYMI: Last week, we dropped our November recap, which included the launch of our Q&A series with antimonopoly attorney, advocate, and Illinois congressional candidate @reedforcongress.bsky.social. 🇺🇲 Check it out on Substack: nextgencompetition.substack.com/p/top-hat-an...

As we close out Black Friday, we hope you shopped smart –unlike our President, who purchased $82 million in bonds over the last few months, including from Big Tech. 🙄 www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/tec...

Today, we’re grateful for public servants like @linamkhan.bsky.social, who work tirelessly to hold monopolies accountable, and for the next generation of leaders, like @reedforcongress.bsky.social, stepping up to protect competition, innovation, and democracy. Thanks for being in this fight! 💪

ICYMI: Last week, we were proud to join @econliberties.bsky.social led-effort to urge state attorneys general to appeal the Google remedies decision. We need structural solutions, not symbolic remedies. 💪🏼 nextgencomp.tech/letters/rec0...

We’re thrilled to launch our Q&A series with @reedforcongress.bsky.social: attorney, advocate, and congressional candidate from Illinois’ 7th District. 🇺🇲 He spoke about the affordability crisis, tackling monopolies, and why Big Tech's power needs to be checked. ⚖️ nextgencomp.tech/blog/qanda-w...

Courts alone cannot check the corrupting influence of billionaires or challenge the market & political power of the largest corporations. We need legislators like @reedforcongress.bsky.social who can take up this challenge. See ⬇️ for the full Q&A @nextgencompetition.bsky.social

ICYMI: Last week, alongside dozens of orgs, we were proud to join @consumerfed.bsky.social, @epic.org, and @demandprogress.bsky.social on an amicus brief in support of Commissioner Slaughter. The FTC exists to serve the public, not corporate profit. 🙅🏻‍♂️ Full brief: nextgencomp.tech/letters/rec3...

If you’re not a celebrity with a massive platform, what’s your recourse when Google or Meta publishes false, reputation‑killing claims about you? Big Tech has no customer service line for regular people and no accountability either. 😒 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

Alongside @consumerfed.bsky.social, @epic.org, and @demandprogress.bsky.social, we're proud to join an amicus brief in support of Commissioner Slaughter. The FTC serves the public, not corporate profit, and giving the President unbridled power to fire economic regulators puts Americans at risk.

Big Tech isn’t just corroding the internet, it’s coming for Hollywood, too, as Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are reportedly circling Warner Bros. Discovery. 👀 If past mergers are any guide, expect fewer voices, more consolidation, and an industry ruled by tech giants. www.theverge.com/news/805387/...

ICYMI: We dropped our October recap last week, covering everything from @sumitecon.bsky.social's take on AI and competition to Big Tech’s biggest lobbyist in Congress 😒 Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

Anyone else concerned that tech giants are investing billions of dollars in data centers that wreak havoc on communities for a nascent technology? 🤯

Excellent piece from @capitalb.bsky.social on how Big Tech’s unquenchable thirst for data is affecting black communities in the South, and how they’re fighting back 💪🏾 capitalbnews.org/data-centers...

Some reflections on two key ingredients identified by this year's economic Nobel prize winners for technological progress to result in sustained economic growth in @nextgencompetition.bsky.social latest newsletter newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

In @inc.com, Lindsey Witmer Collins highlights why the remedies decision was such a letdown, why we can’t leave it up to Congress or the tech giants to act responsibly, and why judges should be held to a higher standard. ⚖️ Read more: www.inc.com/lindsey-witm...

Our October newsletter is live! 🗞️ AI and competition, Big Tech’s most effective lobbyist in Congress, bending the knee for a ballroom, and more. Read the latest on Substack: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

These layoffs may be a drop in the bucket while Amazon realizes “efficiency gains,” but these are 14,000 individuals who will lose their jobs at the hands of a tech giant worth almost $3 trillion dollars. Shameful. 😠 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

As Former AAG for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter says, “Looking ahead, energy, power is going to be an extremely important area of focus for antitrust enforcers.” Read more about the antitrust implications of the data center boom from Edith Hancock ⬇️ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/data...

In @thebaffler.com, Lizzie O'Shea outlines the complexities of the antitrust landscape under the Trump administration, and why any alliance might not be as strong as it appears. ⚖️

“Just as the Constitution creates checks and balances in our government, anti-monopoly laws create checks against concentrations of economic power.” 🔥🔥🔥 Excellent wrap-up of Lina Khan's 2025 Stone Lecture on Economic Inequality at the Harvard Kennedy School. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is taking Meta to court for allegedly enabling child exploitation through its algorithms. As Washington stalls, it’s state attorneys general who are stepping up to hold Big Tech accountable. 🧑‍⚖️ Read more: time.com/7327229/raul...

Our October newsletter is dropping soon! 🎃 Nothing scarier than Big Tech's antics. Make sure you’re subscribed to get the latest on this past month’s happenings, from the AI bubble to another crippling outage, this time courtesy of Amazon. Subscribe here: email.nextgencomp.tech/website-sign...

Whether advocating for robust antitrust laws, calling out Big Tech flattery, or putting monopolistic behavior on notice, we’re fighting to create a fair and competitive technology ecosystem that empowers consumers, workers, and small businesses. 💪🏻 And we’re just getting started. nextgencomp.tech

Big Tech’s billion‑dollar AI partnerships are turning into bidding wars, dominance moves, all with no guardrails. 😱 If we want to foster choice, accountability, and innovation, this cluster is exactly the opposite, it’s a clear sign of consolidation. www.businessinsider.com/big-techs-ai...

It absolutely did raise many red flags 🚩 Kudos to these organizations, both big and small, for calling on the administration to hold these companies accountable. nypost.com/2025/10/06/b...

We have to beat China… so we can flood the internet with ultra-convincing, AI-generated slop. 🙄 OpenAI’s “Sora” is what happens when innovation is guided by billionaires, not guardrails. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/t...

ICYMI: We dropped our September recap last week, covering everything from @sumitecon.bsky.social’s take on the Google remedies decision as to why Big Tech is cozying up to Trump – again. 😒 Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

NextGen was proud to sign on to PIRG's open letter urging Microsoft to reconsider its decision to end support for Windows 10 before this week’s deadline. This decision could render 400 million computers obsolete 🤯 Read more: pirg.org/updates/our-...

Big Tech’s most effective lobbyist? Jim Jordan. 😒 While the House stalls, Jordan’s Judiciary Committee has become Big Tech’s best defense, trading antitrust action for anti-“woke” theater. Read @sumitecon.bsky.social's latest op-ed:

My latest Op-Ed in @commondreams.org House Republicans keep promising a crusade against Big Tech’s power. If they were serious, they would likely find support from their Democratic colleagues

In our September recap, we cover Judge Mehta’s weak Google remedy, Microsoft’s looming Windows 10 disaster, and why Big Tech is cozying up to Trump – again. 😒 The TL;DR? Monopoly money still talks. newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...

For years, Big Tech has dodged product liability and that impunity is one reason they’ve grown so powerful. 🙄 If AI harms people the way other defective products do, the same legal standards should apply. No more excuses. 🙅 www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...

While we’re consistently dismayed and disappointed by congressional attempts at reining in Big Tech, it’s heartening to see the states picking up the mantle. Kudos to the state attorneys general leading this effort 💪