They’re shaping our market, our democracy—our entire reality. If we’re going to fix them, we need to understand them.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Big Tech Investigations That Should Have Started in 2012
Two missed opportunities from the Federal Trade Commission, on Google and Facebook, led us to the monopoly crisis we face today.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Digital Media Is Suffocating—and It’s Facebook and Google’s Fault
Newsrooms across the country are laying off journalists, because the ad dollars generated from their work all filter up to Big Tech.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Here’s the Real Trouble With Tech
Once you understand the tech giants are capturing unguarded human experience, their business makes sense.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How to Regulate Tech Platforms
Their sheer market power destroys rivals and abuses data of users.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The EU Leads the Way to Internet Privacy Over Profit
We should be rooting for the success of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Up Against Big Tech
The old challenges of concentrated economic and political power now confront us in new forms.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
It’s an Ad World After All
Is it legal for a company to take out Internet ads on your name after you’ve filed a complaint against it? Apparently so.