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? 👇

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...

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.

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 tek.sapo.pt/noticias/com...

📣 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-...

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/

The Atlantic Sues Google Over Its Digital Ad Model, Alleging Manipulation and Fraud www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

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

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.

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...

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-...

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.

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

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...

"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.

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.

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.

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"

"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."

Are we back to the days of Ronnie Reagan regime change in Central America? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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...

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...

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

“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.”

ah, the butlerian jihad

"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...

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%.

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...

"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...

"With support from the U.S. tech industry, the Trump administration has taken an aggressive posture against other government’s digital restrictions as well"

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

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. 🧵

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.

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...

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...

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...

"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...

🇪🇺 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 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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.

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/

"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...

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

🔴 ‘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

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...

"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. #MakeAmazonPay

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...

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.👇

✊ 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...

"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...

"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." 💪💪💪💪