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I research Big Tech's power and campaign to limit it at
@somoamsterdam.bsky.social
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Friends of the Earth Europe
about 23 hours ago
Big Brother is feeding you. It doesn't sound nice, right? As farmers face increasing economic pressure and climate impacts, BigAgri & BigTech are teaming up to sell them a new techno-fix: digital farming through platformisation and AI. What is that? What's behind this corporate takeover? 👇
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Big Brother is Feeding You - Friends of the Earth Europe
As farmers face increasing economic pressure and rising climate impacts, Big Agri and BigTech corporations are working jointly to sell them a new techno-fix: the digitalisation of farming through plat...
https://friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/big-brother-is-feeding-you/
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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
6 days ago
Google wants to buy Israeli-American cybersecurity company Wiz. But if the deal goes through, Europe will be even more dependent on tech giants. If Europe wants to protect competitive cloud markets and digital sovereignty, it must investigate the deal ⚠️ Read more:
www.somo.nl/google-to-ab...
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UNI Europa
7 days ago
As Amazon announced 16,000 layoffs today, worker representatives and MEPs blasted Amazon management for undermining worker health and democracy at work during a European Parliament hearing on working conditions in its warehouses.
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Unions and MEPs blast Amazon’s disregard for worker health at European Parliament hearing
As Amazon announced 16,000 layoffs today, worker representatives blasted Amazon management for disregarding worker health at a European Parliament hearing on working conditions in its warehouses.
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/unions-and-meps-blast-amazons-disregard-for-worker-health-at-european-parliament-hearing/
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Paula Simoes
18 days ago
Soberana onde? EUA têm o CLOUD Act lei q permite ao governo e autoridades americanas aceder aos dados, mesmo que estejam noutro país, de empresas baseadas, ou q operem, ou q tenham presença legal nos EUA Portugal assegura extensão da nova cloud soberana da AWS na Europa
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Portugal assegura extensão da nova cloud soberana da AWS na Europa
A primera região da nova cloud soberana da Amazon Web Services na Europa já começou a funcionar e Portugal terá uma das três primeiras zonas locais a avançarem a ...
https://tek.sapo.pt/noticias/computadores/artigos/portugal-assegura-extensao-da-nova-cloud-soberana-da-aws-na-europa
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EPSU
20 days ago
📣 No public money for tax dodgers! Amazon. Microsoft. Oracle. Accenture. Winning public contracts while shifting profits offshore. EU pays double. 👉🏾 Exclude tax avoiders from public procurement! New research shows how current EU rules entrench monopoly power👇🏾
www.epsu.org/article/new-...
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Jan Willem Goudriaan
21 days ago
And the report of
@cictar.bsky.social
on using EU Procurement to address tax avoidance is out Some companies including US Big tech try to win public contracts, loving workers' and people's tax money, but leaving us poorer by avoiding to pay fair share of taxes EU's procurement rules can ... 1/
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New report on how EU procurement rules keep awarding the tax avoiders
EU procurement reforms must stop rewarding tax dodging corporations with public money, unions warn.
https://www.epsu.org/article/new-report-how-eu-procurement-rules-keep-awarding-tax-avoiders
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Simonetta Vezzoso
21 days ago
The Atlantic Sues Google Over Its Digital Ad Model, Alleging Manipulation and Fraud
www.thewrap.com/industry-new...
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The Atlantic Sues Google Over Its Digital Ad Model, Alleging Manipulation and Fraud
The Atlantic on Tuesday sued Google and its parent company Alphabet, alleging the tech giant’s model of serving ads to publishers has become a monopoly.
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/the-atlantic-google-alphabet-lawsuit/
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Glyn Moody
21 days ago
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights -
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
incredibly stupid: handing *more* power to US digital giants - exactly wrong
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Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/article-article-how-big-tech-shaped-eus-roll-back-digital-rights
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So Meta's latest revolving doors hire from the Trump administration is now going to lobby governments and I assume other public administrations to “build, deploy, invest in, and finance Meta’s infrastructure.” The world's richest men are ultimately just looking for government handouts.
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Vicky Cann
23 days ago
If you speak 🇵🇹 check out our new op ed in
@publico.pt
together with
Zero.ong
on
#PFAS
O lobbying eterno da indústria das substâncias químicas eternas The forever lobbying of the forever chemical industry
www.publico.pt/2026/01/12/a...
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O lobbying eterno da indústria das substâncias químicas eternas
A proibição das PFAS pela União Europeia continua a ser uma esperança distante. E há sinais preocupantes de que os reguladores estão a tentar aliviar a responsabilidade da indústria.
https://www.publico.pt/2026/01/12/azul/opiniao/lobbying-eterno-industria-substancias-quimicas-eternas-2160484#
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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
27 days ago
With Google's looming acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz, Europe needs to start seriously scrutinising the Big Tech firm's plans and commit to upholding competitive cloud security markets and protecting digital sovereignty. Op-ed fresh off the press:
www.techpolicy.press/googles-wiz-...
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Eliot Higgins
27 days ago
Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
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Mike Hixenbaugh
27 days ago
The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html
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Katelyn Burns
28 days ago
For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site.
www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...
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Grok, the Child Porn Generator, Should Be Illegal
X, the child porn company formerly known as Twitter, is now removing the clothes of women and children with photos on the site on behalf of its users. I first joined Twitter in December 2015. Deeply ...
https://www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-child-porn-generator-should-be-illegal/
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American Economic Liberties Project
28 days ago
"NDAs BETRAY,” reads one of the signs in Coweta, OK, one of the many towns facing a potential AI data center. Big Tech uses these NDAs to hide the true impacts of their data centers on communities — and to shut the public out of the process.
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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
29 days ago
The intervention in Venezuela and the detention of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife violate Venezuela’s right to self-determination as well as international law.
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Public Citizen
30 days ago
Instead of seeking congressional authorization for his military strike, Trump left Congress in the dark but tipped off OIL COMPANIES before he bombed Venezuela. He's not trying to hide that he only cares about the interests of corporations & billionaires. This isn't a democracy, it's an oligarchy.
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Simonetta Vezzoso
about 1 month ago
The "head of office at US Big Tech lobby CCIA Europe, told Euractiv that he would warn EU lawmakers against efforts to decouple too sharply from US technology, as this would risk provoking countermeasures"
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borderless
about 1 month ago
"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
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Lisa O’Carroll
about 1 month ago
Are we back to the days of Ronnie Reagan regime change in Central America?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live
US president says: ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-explosions-venezuela-maduro-latest-news-updates-live
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Jeff Horwitz
about 1 month ago
We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show
As regulators pressure Meta to verify the identity of advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them. A Reuters investigation examines its tactics...
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/
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Edwy Plenel
about 1 month ago
Pour entraîner son modèle d’intelligence artificielle, Meta a téléchargé illégalement, dès 2022, les ouvrages accumulés par le site pirate LibGen.
@mediapart.fr
révèle l’implication centrale de Guillaume Lample, cofondateur de l’entreprise française Mistral AI.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...
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Comment un cofondateur de Mistral AI a piraté des millions de livres quand il travaillait chez Meta
Pour entraîner son modèle d’intelligence artificielle, la maison mère de Facebook a téléchargé illégalement, dès 2022, les ouvrages accumulés par le site pirate LibGen. Mediapart révèle l’implication…
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/221225/comment-un-cofondateur-de-mistral-ai-pirate-des-millions-de-livres-quand-il-travaillait-chez-m
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Leana Hosea
about 2 months ago
The UK’s largest planned data centre—a project by US firm QTS—is understating its true water consumption by a factor of 50, says new analysis by
@watershed-i.bsky.social
&
@aiarmsracebook.bsky.social
@digiconomist.bsky.social
No mistake; AI is a heavy, polluting industry.
shorturl.at/KXQxJ
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UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/19/uk-largest-proposed-data-centre-planned-water-use-northumberland
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Anna Bower
about 1 month ago
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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John Wiswell
about 2 months ago
ah, the butlerian jihad
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"A new AI trade group is distributing talking points to members of Congress and organizing local data center field trips to better pitch voters on their value. Another trade association, the Data Center Coalition (DCC), nearly tripled its lobbying spend"
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Data centers have a political problem — and Big Tech wants to fix it
A growth engine for the economy is becoming a political albatross. Can messaging change that?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/data-centers-have-a-political-problem-and-big-tech-wants-to-fix-it-00693695?cid=apn
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Senator Bernie Sanders
about 2 months ago
I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
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It's Time for a Moratorium on Data Centers | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
https://youtu.be/f40SFNcTOXo?si=j-FlGZMt-V4sr7Wx
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Ed Zitron
about 2 months ago
Amazon is talking about investing $10bn in OpenAI so that OpenAI can then hand some of that back as part of its $38bn cloud compute deal using trainium chips. This should get OpenAI to what, March? Utterly stupid and investors should actively punish Amazon
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
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Maria Farrell
about 2 months ago
"With its democracy now explicitly under threat, Europe must join India, Brazil and China in standing up to Trump." And here's how; enforce Europe's laws and pop the AI bubble. by
@johnnyryan.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan
Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu
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Simonetta Vezzoso
about 2 months ago
"With support from the U.S. tech industry, the Trump administration has taken an aggressive posture against other government’s digital restrictions as well"
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Alberto Alemanno
about 2 months ago
Did you know that the Member of the European Parliament in charge of dismantling the Green Deal is also the lobbyist for companies benefiting from this deregulation? Complaint lodged with
@president.europarl.europa.eu
cc
@ombudsman.europa.eu
#CSRD
#CSDDD
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
about 2 months ago
Corporate lobbying is heating up on the digital omnibus - a Commission proposal that'd axe our digital rights 🪓 Last week lobby groups published a letter calling for "meaningful deregulation". 🧐 But what seems like a letter from European industry, actually has Big Tech fingerprints all over it. 🧵
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https://aichamber.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Partners_Open-Letter-on-Digital-Omnibus-package.pdf
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
about 2 months ago
Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.
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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
about 2 months ago
Final NCP ruling: Telenor violated the OECD Guidelines in its disengagement from Myanmar 🚨 Telenor should now take an active role in remediation and provide financial support to a Myanmar digital security relief mechanism, according to the decision. Read more:
www.somo.nl/telenor-fail...
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Today
@somoamsterdam.bsky.social
joined 70+ groups to tell the EU Commission: 1️⃣ don't settle for Google's promises to 'do better' as a solution to its abuses of power; 2️⃣ only a break-up will remove Google's ability and incentive to abuse its dominance in adtech.
rebalance-now.de/en/open-lett...
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Robin Wilson
about 2 months ago
The
#AI
bubble is postponing the
#TrumpSlump
but its guzzling electricity demand is gouging the very voters who bought his preposterous claims to bring down prices (while raising tariffs), as his approval slides further below even his first-term nadir:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/us-data-centers?CMP=share_btn_url
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"Governments and MPs are shooting themselves in the foot by pandering to tech giants, because that just tells young people that they don’t care about our future”
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
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‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe
Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/09/youth-movement-digital-justice-spreading-across-europe
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Teresa Ribera
about 2 months ago
🇪🇺 This morning we opened an investigation into Google’s use of online content, including from web publishers and YouTube, to train and operate its AI services. 1/3
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Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the use of online content for AI purposes
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on th
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2964
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POLITICO Europe
about 2 months ago
The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into whether Google breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as video uploaded to YouTube, for artificial intelligence purposes.
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EU Commission opens antitrust probe into Google AI
EU executive investigates whether Google unfairly used web publishers’ content and video uploaded to YouTube to power its artificial intelligence.
https://www.politico.eu/article/commission-opens-antitrust-probe-into-google-ai/
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
about 2 months ago
Trump's new National Security Strategy is a mask-off moment, it reads like it was written by a cartoon fascist. The US aims to save Europe from itself by [checks notes] backing far right parties in the EU and restoring our “civilizational self-confidence and Western identity”…. 1/
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Max Bernhard
about 2 months ago
"The vendors' suspensions follow the emergence of serious allegations indicating that it is likely the suppliers engaged in sanctionable practices, including irregularities in the award of contracts"
www.ftm.eu/articles/isr...
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Israel’s biggest defence company suspended by NATO amid corruption probe
Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm, is implicated in a widening NATO corruption scandal. The military alliance’s procurement agency (NSPA) has suspended the company from bidding on new contr...
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/israel-defence-elbit-systems-suspended-nato-corruption-investigation
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More Perfect Union
2 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
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DeSmog
2 months ago
🔴 ‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans. 📝
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
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‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws
A public relations firm for major U.S. polluters worked to dismantle EU laws that require large corporations to make plans for cutting emissions. The PR company Teneo undertook its work on behalf of t...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/04/divide-and-conquer-inside-the-oil-and-gas-strategy-to-thwart-eu-green-laws/
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An absolute must read by colleagues at
@somoamsterdam.bsky.social
Leaked lobby documents reveal how, under the pretext of the now-near-magical concept of ‘competitiveness’, US companies plotted to hijack democratically adopted EU laws. This lobby campaign is ongoing
www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...
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Progressive International
2 months ago
"Amazon tech helped deport my neighbours." On Cyber Monday in New York, Amazon warehouse workers with Amazon Labor Union and tech workers with No Tech For Apartheid protested Amazon's complicity in Israel's genocide and ICE's deportations.
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European Trade Unions
2 months ago
Following US pressure, the EU Commission has proposed to slash regulation that holds Big Tech accountable to the people of Europe.
#DigitalOmnibus
: Rather than bowing to Silicon Valley, the Commission must respect EU rule-making and accept its result.
www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
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Amazon’s EU lobby meetings show it's trying: - to participate in the EU's cloud sovereignty push; - to shape the EU's AI & competition rules. Just as EU & national regulators: - opened an investigation into Amazon’s cloud power - found it abused its power to control prices across the market.👇
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
2 months ago
✊ Today workers across Europe are taking action against Amazon. ❌ Amazon exploits its workers ❌ Has close ties with the Israeli military ❌ Is a monopolist As the company is under intense scrutiny, it has ramped up its lobby power in the EU 🧵
#MakeAmazonPay
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/w...
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"A majority of Europeans agree: in a survey, 83 per cent of EU citizens said they want union busters like Amazon to be excluded from public contracts."
#MakeAmazonPay
www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...
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"We, the undersigned Amazon employees (...) believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth." 💪💪💪💪
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