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? 👇

🤯When false solutions reach next level of falsehood. Instead of reducing pesticide use and restore ecosystems, let's go for CO2-loaded tech making food production dependent on dodgy tech providers! Good response from @beelifeeu.bsky.social at the very end.

Big tech, administration Trump, think tanks MAGA et extrême droite européenne (dont le RN) mènent une offensive conjointe contre les règles européennes au nom de la «liberté d'expression» En jeu: la régulation de l'espace public numérique Notre enquête ⤵️ multinationales.org/fr/enquetes/...

A senior MoD official helps shape defence strategy, then joins Palantir. Months later, Palantir lands a £240m MoD contract without tender. No laws broken – just the revolving door doing what it does best.

✊ We are currently blocking CEFIC @cefic.bsky.social - the biggest chemical industry lobbying agency in the EU. Our brave rebels are saying NO to dirty corporate lobbying, poisoning our food and contaminating our water. #PeopleOverLobbies #extinctionrebellion

“Thiel Spokesman Denies Former Israeli PM’s Claim Jeffrey Epstein ‘Co-Owned’ Palantir Founder’s Venture Fund – But Confirms Epstein was a Limited Partner” 2/4/26 … 1/

📻 Listen to how Big Tech is front and center in the EU's push to roll-back digital rights. Great to be speaking with @criticaltakes.bsky.social

New! How Big Tech's lobbyists are working in Brussels to undermine European regulations. An in-depth account from Bram Vranken of @corporateeurope.org Recommended listening for anyone in civil society whose work concerns the EU. Listen here: criticaltakes.org/the-corporat...

The addictive design of social media is a major problem with serious impacts on public health and endangering democracy Our new report reveals intense #lobbying by Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap to block or water down EU measures against social media addiction 🚨 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

We've updated our Big Tech M&A tracker! The new data reveals that: 🔎 Acquisitions by Big Tech firms Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Apple, and Amazon increased by 30% in 2025 🔎 Big Tech is positioning itself as a key actor in the future of AI, with 15 of those acquisitions being AI-related. (1/3)

New @corporateeurope.org report on #BigTech lobbying has found EU Commission officials met lobbyists 100+ times on the Digital Fairness Act since Dec 2024. 83% of meetings were w/ companies + business lobby groups, while less than 14% were with NGOs + trade unions corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

CEO has uncovered a new astroturfing organization by Big Tech: EU Tech Loop is a project by CCC Europe, a lobby group funded by Google and Meta. EU Tech Loop publishes articles on the Euronews website that closely echo the views of Big Tech. 👇

🤳 Open phone for one thing. 1h later, you remember it again, after feeling your brain melted by doomscrolling and brainrot. That’s not a personal failure — it’s by design. The EU wants to curb it. Big Tech is #lobbying hard to keep you hooked. 👀 our new report 👇 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

"Restrictions on addictive features would hurt their profits and power." – Olivier Hoedeman, coordinator at @corporateeurope.org and author of the report, told The Brussels Times. Waiting for a response from @ec.europa.eu

AWO’s Algorithm Governance Roundup is out! This month, we spoke to Daniel Leufer @djleufer.bsky.social about how the AI Omnibus could weaken fundamental rights safeguards in the AI Act.👇 eomail5.com/web-version?...

An analysis of the Digital Omnibus @socialeurope.bsky.social The core argument is about how EU digital law is being structurally re-engineered www.socialeurope.eu/the-digital-...

🙌 Great investigative research by @obsmultinationales.bsky.social has revealed that the French tech company Capgemini is helping ICE to track down people. 👉 multinationales.org/fr/a-chaud/a... Now Capgemini is selling of its US subsidiary. www.bbc.com/news/article...

1 Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope.org on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...

‼️Joint @imco.europarl.europa.eu and @libe.europarl.europa.eu committee vote on this 27/1 on the @coe.int "Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy & the Rule of Law" - strong support but extreme right MEP such as Tom Vandendriessche oppose‼️ bsky.app/profile/imco...

Israel's apologists spent over 2 years sowing distrust in the official Gaza death toll. Now the Israeli army quietly accepts that it is actually an underestimate. Eternal shame for the atrocity deniers. They must never be absolved of their guilt.

🇪🇺"MEPs from across the political spectrum voiced sharp criticism of Amazon’s labour practices, questioning the company’s commitment to collective bargaining, labour rights and democratic institutions in Europe." #MakeAmazonPay

Red Alert: mid-February EU summit aims to accelerate EU deregulation 🚨 EU "Leaders' Retreat" on 12 February, in rural Belgium, will discuss radical proposals to accelerate the #deregulation of EU & national level legislation ⚠️ Read more at #DeregulationWatch ➡️ corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

the absolute disgrace of this...

Peter Thiel is allegedly expected in Paris next Monday. Possibly linked to this event with the former French ambassador the to U.S. on this topic: "The impact of Donald Trump's presidency on American society and democracy." academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr/evenement/co...

3/ The #deregulation chainsaw is being wielded in several ways 10 omnibuses (so far) have been announced by 🇪🇺 Commission 🌍 Sustainability 🧪 Chemicals 🐝 Pesticides 🌐 Digital 🚜 Agri 💥 Defence 🏭 Pollution These rules are under attack See #Omnibus tracker: cloud.corporateeurope.org/s/RjrwKPiTmm...

1/ The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections. We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation. Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!

The Digital Omnibus is a hand-out to Big Tech while threatening our digital rights. ✍️ Share and sign the @wemoveeurope.bsky.social petition to not let Big Tech water down important protections.

On 19 November 2025, the European Commission unveiled the new Digital Omnibus, claiming it would “simplify” tech rules. In reality, it reopens laws that protect us from Big Tech abuse, unsafe AI, scams, and online harm.

Breaking: European Parliament recognises serious risks in the 28th Company Regime approach. The message is clear: creating a parallel EU company system raises major legal, social and economic issues. We call on Commissioner McGrath to rethink the approach.

“While we cannot definitively show that industry funding in this area is redirecting attention from products to consumers, our results are consistent with this possibility.” Preprint suggests “industry influence in social media research is extensive, impactful, and often opaque.”🧪

🇪🇺 "The #EU's #DigitalOmnibus has been the subject of much criticism since the autumn. Two NGOs have now meticulously compared the planned changes with the lobbying activities of these companies in #Brussels in recent years." (from German) 🗞️ Read more: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

The EU’s “Digital Omnibus” is being sold as simplification. Analysis shows something else: major changes that tilt the rules toward Big Tech-weakening privacy, AI safeguards, and accountability. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

Big Tech's push for deregulation of EU digital laws is helped by the Trump administration and the European far right 🚨 New CEO report shows "Meta has already met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group" during this parliamentary mandate. Worrying!

EU's digital omnibus is an example of Commission being captured by corporate power. Its omnibus nothing to do with making EU better for workers and people. All to do with attacking rights and following US big tech agenda. @epsu.bsky.social joined warning for this Excellent🧵 @corporateeurope.org

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

"The Commission’s deregulation agenda is not just opening the door to Big Tech, it's inviting the far-right in," says @bramvranken.bsky.social New article on the report by @corporateeurope.org and LobbyControl with comments from @ec.europa.eu, who deny the claims.

🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights. Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

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.

What is #lobbying — and why should you care? This new video series breaks down how power, influence, and politics really work behind the scenes. Watch the first episode with @marcellablues.bsky.social and follow along as we unpack lobbying and its impact on everyday life.

The EU Commission launched 10 Omnibus packages in 2025, weakening regulatory standards in numerous areas 🚨 We’ve created an ‘Omnibus Tracker’ that provides an up-to-date overview of Omnibus proposals and what’s at stake 🔍 #deregulation #DeregulationWatch www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Good news:Bayer's immunity shield has been defeated! If approved, it would block citizens from taking pesticide producers to court when they suffer damage to their health after using their toxic products. Senate Republicans have agreed not to revisit the issue. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another day, another Big Tech revolving door scandal. Former UK chancellor George Osborne is joining OpenAI. Great to see our research on Big Tech's lobby firepower being quoted though 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...

Ireland has one of the world's highest concentrations of data centers. The expansion has reshaped the grid & deepened fossil fuel use. As the EU pushes to triple data center capacity, Ireland offers a warning, writes Louis Boyd-Madsen. Read our investigation with @algorithmwatch.org.

A new report from @politico.eu on "Europe's Omnibus Fever" is damning in its criticism: "What the Commission frames as simplification is, in practice, a downward drift in regulatory reach that erodes the informational foundations of effective governance." #deregulation #omnibus #RuleToProtect

Great to speak to @bramvranken.bsky.social about the AI Act and recent complaint to the European Ombudsman on the opacity of the AI standardisation process. Check it out here!

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. 🧵

Bringing the disruption to Brussels: The European Commission encourages its managers to draft policy-making documents with AI, including "explaining/summarising legislative initiatives". According to a newly released Commission document, this will "boost your team's productivity". 🫢

Will the deregulation of our digital rights by the EU happen with the support of the far right? 🤨 That's what Meta seems to be aiming for, with 3 lobby meetings with far-right MEPs this week alone. VDL's deregulation agenda isn't just opening the door to Big Tech, it's inviting the far right in.

Today it's exactly 6 years ago that EU Commission President Von der Leyen announced the European Green Deal, which she called "Europe's Man on the Moon moment" 🎂 Von der Leyen's priority today? Acting on corporate demands for #deregulation, recklessly rolling back environment and health standards 😡

Corporate lobby groups demand a “social omnibus” to roll back workers’ rights ⚠️ Lobby groups linked to BusinessEurope call for #deregulation of the pay transparency directive, posted workers directive, etc. Read more in our new post on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...