ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

Every story about how some professional organization submitted work full of AI hallucinations, shows how little the work output is actually vetted at these places.

🎉 Neue Veröffentlichungen zu unserem Projekt #Digitalhaushalt (2025), in denen wir das Digitalbudget der Bundesregierung analysieren und politisch einordnen: 🎯 Policy Paper zu den Digitalausgaben agoradigital.de/wp-content/u... 🎯 Studie zum Digitalhaushalt 2025 agoradigital.de/wp-content/u...

Der Digitalhaushalt 2025: der große Schub? Die Gründung des Digitalministeriums sollte ein klares Signal setzen: Digitalisierung hat Priorität. Hinzu kommt: KI und digitale Souveränität sind große Themen. Und mit dem Sondervermögen hat die Bundesregierung zusätzliche Spielräume für Investitionen.

The Trump administration used tariff threats to pressure countries into gutting their own tech regulations. From Indonesia to Brazil, Big Tech's wish list became US trade policy, according to an investigation led by Agência Pública as part of the series The Invisible Hand of Big Tech.

We are now in the first wave of AI’s enshitification cycle. Claude’s flat fee billing for enterprises is switching to usage based amid widespread reports of the model being dumbed down. Everyone knew the subsidies wouldn’t last but this is ending faster than expected. At least wait until the IPO. 😬

NEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech” Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe. citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

EU Commission selling us out to #BigTech and #Trump

📢 Announcing the Open Social Awards ✨ Alongside PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab, we aim to honor the work of independent builders around the world, creating innovative products for the open web! More details below… newpublic.org/OSA

🎂 𝟮𝟬 𝗝𝗮𝗵𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 - 𝗪𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘀 𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲: agoradigital.de/zwanzig-jahr... Unsere Innovation Lead @vvnbnrt.bsky.social schreibt auf dem Agora Digitale Transformation Blog über die Entwicklung des sozialen Netzwerks und die Konsequenzen für die digitale Öffentlichkeit.

Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits

Japan’s new political party, Team Mirai, illustrates the viability of a different way to do politics, write Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier—one in which technology is used to make democratic processes stronger, instead of undermining them.

Wir haben spannende Stellen zu #KI und #DigitalenMärkten ausgeschrieben. 👇

“For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, …for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year” Based on new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social data www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

😳 Komplexes Zoll-Rückerstattungschaos in den USA in Zahlen: 👉 53 Mio. Einträge für Waren, die den inzwischen für ungültig erklärten Zöllen unterliegen (Angaben der Regierung). 👉 166 Mrd. Dollar, die die Regierung an „Not“-Zöllen eingenommen hat. 👉 650 Mio. Dollar pro Monat an Zinsen…

And @vestager.bsky.social takes the stage at #Rebuild. She's talking about digital infrastructure: "That's not a tech problem. That's a democratic problem." It's amazing to finally hear this said by someone with voice.

I think about this problem a lot. Even when Trump is gone, it’ll be impossible to undo the institutional damage he’s done from mass firing Black women from government jobs to having his allies own CBS/CNN/TikTok/etc to turning ICE into a Gestapo without the same kind of authoritarian moves he made

Die starken Forderungen aus Gesellschaft und Politik nach Altersgrenzen für Social Media heißen doch im Umkehrschluss dass der Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag und dessen Umsetzung komplett gescheitert ist, oder? Übersehe ich da was?

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Der neue Medienstaatsvertrag in D schreibt ARD, @zdfde.bsky.social & Co "zielgruppengerechte interaktive Kommunikation mit den Nutzern […] sowie verstetigte Möglichkeiten der Partizipation“ vor. Eine Studie von @agoradigital.bsky.social liefert dazu Impulse: agoradigital.de/wp-content/u... 1/3

Angenommen, die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen nähmen ihren Auftrag im Internet gnadenlos ernst - ohne Pfadabhängigkeit und "Aber die Tagesschau!": Wie sähe das aus? Seit gestern macht 1 Studie der @agoradigital.bsky.social 1 paar Vorschläge - auch für den Weg dorthin. 🧵👇

So the President of the United States of America is posting to his personal social media network blatantly fake news videos that I'm pretty sure are AI generated slop. This one is supposedly about Gavin Newsom panicking that Walmart is pulling out of California (it's not).

In UK wird #Palantir hochkant rausgeworfen, da sie die Regierungen von Israel und USA bei illegaler Massenüberwachung, Deportation und Tötung unterstützen ❤️❤️❤️ "...is telling defence surveillance corporation Palantir to “pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS” www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

Fühlt es sich so an wirkungsorientiert zu arbeiten? Keine Panik! Unsere Data Scientist @vvnbnrt.bsky.social hat ein Poster veröffentlicht, das zeigt, wie Digitalpolitik mit messbaren Zielen und Indikatoren wirksamer werden kann. 👉Poster-Download: agoradigital.de/wp-content/u...

Good moment to share again as EU is considering its options to counter US economic coercion campaigb for Greenland. Let‘s start with taxing adtech really hard.

Google has filed its $32bn acquisition of Wiz for EU clearance. The deal risks killing multi-cloud security and deepening lock-in, testing whether EU competition policy is willing to act, write Hilary Jennings, Claire Lavin, Çağrı Çavuş and Aline Blankertz.

The @ec.europa.eu will soon present “a combination of funding and policy measures” to support European open source projects in becoming commercially viable alternatives to proprietary US tech. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

Things are going great on The Everything App with MechaHitler in charge.

Super Indikator dass das läuft mit der Digitalisierung. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...

Europe’s Digital Markets Act aims to open ecosystems: alternatives to app stores, fair access to OS features, real interoperability. But for many free and open source developers, those promises remain fragile without robust enforcement, write Lucas Lasota, Dario Presutti and Jithendra Palepu.

See that cluster on the top left? It's gonna get a whole lot bigger by the end of the week.

It says everything to understand what this is about.

As I didn't intend to travel to the US, excuse my French: The US administration is - intentionally spreading fake news and lies about EU laws. - trying to coerce European states by threatening to reduce military support if it doesn't exclude US companies from EU digital rules.

Die Angriffe der rechtsradikalen Trump-Administration auf die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft nehmen zu. Jetzt trifft es auch @hateaid.org, die sich für den Schutz digitaler #Menschenrechte engagieren. Wir erwarten, dass die Bundesregierung die Angriffe zurückweist. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amer...

While the US government is escalating its campaign against EU tech regulation - just a reminder. It's the EU that is being taken advantage off. 120 Billion revenue for #Google #Meta #Amazon only in digitale advertising in Europe. And hardly paying any taxes on it.

Finde es ja toll dass es die Webseite gibt. Aber Kosten für einstelligen Millionenbetrag für diese Beta-Version? einfach-machen.gov.de

Regierungsarbeit in Deutschland.

120m is no deterrent to X. Musk will moan in public - in private, he will be doing cartwheels. Tech compliance theatre won't cut it anymore. Europeans want enforcement with teeth - up to revoking access to the Single Market for the worst actors. And Musk + X are the slop merchants par excellence.

Today’s 120 million euro fine against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) will be spun as a decision against “free speech.” It’s not. (1/7) #digitalservicesact #dsa #dsa ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Meine Analyse zum neuen Haushalt des Digitalministeriums für @t3n.de t3n.de/news/karsten...

The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Heute findet in Berlin der französisch-deutsche "Gipfel zur Europäischen Digitalen Souveränität" statt. @torbatschow.de von @agoradigital.bsky.social hat in diesem 🧵aufgeschrieben, wie wir durch offene Plattformen digital souverän werden und wie die Politik dabei helfen könnte. 👇

"Auf allen vier Plattformen wird die AfD am schnellsten [ausgespielt]. […] Bereits nach durchschnittlich 11–12 Minuten taucht zum Beispiel auf TikTok das erste AfD-bezogene Video auf, während es […] etwa 70 Minuten dauert, bis ein SPD-bezogenes Video vorgeschlagen wird." www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de

Es ist das Jahr 2025. Deutschland hat seine Meinungsbildung an BigTech verloren. Doch in einer gemütlichen Landeshauptstadt in @rlp.de organisiert sich Widerstand – und 1 Reform des deutschen Medienrechts. "Rundfunkkommission" klingt staubig? Ha! Willkommen zum GIF-Überblick-🧵 der MStV-Reform:

Was kann man aus Erkenntnissen der letzten Jahre für die Zukunft ableiten? Darum ging es heute in unserem Gespräch mit Bundesminister Karsten Wildberger. Worum es ging: ⤵️

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR. This is the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country. Whatever changes this action brings, NPR’s commitment to reporting the news – without fear or favor – will never change.