Two public-health (and democracy-health) menaces duke it out.
Meta/Facebook
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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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How a Secretive Cyber Unit Censors Palestinians
The Israeli government’s ‘invisible handshake’ with Facebook silences speech—without recourse or accountability.
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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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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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Big Tech’s Bullying Campaigns
Faced for the first time with actual pressure from regulators and law enforcement, tech companies have responded aggressively.
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Merrick Garland Wants Former Facebook Lawyer to Top Antitrust Division
Susan Davies has spent much of the last decade working on behalf of major mergers and fending off antitrust enforcement.
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It’s Not a Big Tech Crackdown, It’s an Anti-Monopoly Revolution
Critical developments across sectors of the economy show that the movement against corporate power is winning—at last.
Posted inPolitics
Voting Is Over, but Election Misinformation Continues
The Big Tech platforms did a slightly better job this year, but falsehoods and incitement were still able to spread.
Posted inPolitics
The Facebook Group That Could Flip Pennsylvania
Boasting more than 120,000 members, it’s one of the largest pro-Biden online communities, and a source of camaraderie and support.