Learning about the Pentagon’s drone program through FOIA requests and public filings
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Right-Wing Group Exposes Colleagues Funded by Big Tech
A family-values organization has put together a browser extension that identifies Twitter users who have taken tech money.
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When the Pentagon Visits Silicon Valley
Inside a senior Defense Department official’s meetings with Apple, Google, and defense tech companies
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Congress’s Strange Bedfellows Fighting Big Tech
Coming from two different perspectives, there’s an emerging consensus on blunting the market power of digital platforms. Now the parties have to legislate.
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How Can a State Lawmaker Take On Big Tech?
You have to have a ‘good champion.’
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⏩ Jonathan Guyer on The Majority Report Talks Big Tech to Defense Connection
Watch Prospect Managing Editor Jonathan Guyer discuss the consultant-to-Biden-administration pipeline.
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Big Tech Lobbyists Take Down Arizona’s App Store Bill
HB 2005 would have ended high app store fees for developers. It got stuck in a state Senate committee.
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The Growing Movement to End the Surveillance Economy
A new coalition has formed against digital platforms’ dangerous business model of collecting voluminous user data and using it to serve up ads.
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Islands in the Stream
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
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Will Google Stop Stealing Content From the Media?
Today on TAP: New revenue-sharing laws could change Google’s business model