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LobbyControl Tech retweeted
🚨New report
📝Behind closed doors, Big Tech is writing the standards that will govern their own AI systems
❌The EU should not outsource public policy-making on fundamental rights to private bodies
👉corporateeurope.org/en/2025/…
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LobbyControl Tech retweeted
‼️The @EU_Commission has a severe revolving door problem.
In the last few year scores of EU officials from @EU_Competition have moved to law firms to defend the firms they were previously investigating.
🧐But when we tried to get more info, the Commission refused any access🧵
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
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LobbyControl Tech retweeted
💥Black Friday is #MakeAmazonPay Day!
✊🏿join us!
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LobbyControl Tech retweeted
🚨On Black Friday, 29 November, workers and activists around the world will strike and protest Amazon in over 30 countries! #MakeAmazonPay
✊Join us! MakeAmazonPay.com
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
Europe must “muscle up” on tech, or be bullied by Trump + Musk.
Big item today: a plan for @vonderLeyen to add coherence & muscle to European tech enforcement (comp, data, AI, etc).
Published by the think tank of her own @CDU party @KASonline
kas.de/documents/252038/2939…
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
🤨 Amazon is lobbying to be re-admitted to the @EUparliament after its lobbyists were kicked out in February
@EPSocialAffairs, don't let Amazon's disregard for democracy get off the hook.
@liandersson @johandanielsson @JagnaMarczulajt @k_langensiepen
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LobbyControl Tech retweeted
Big Tech has been making use of an extremely insidious and shady lobby tactic: the use of front groups.
Find out more about our most recent report with @SOMO and @lobbycontrol in the video and read all about it here: corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
New research from @SOMO @corporateeurope & @lobbycontrol uncovers #BigTech hidden network at the #DMA compliance workshops, where as many as 1 in 5 participants had a link to the gatekeepers, most of which was undisclosed to the @EU_Commission ⬇️
somo.nl/uncovering-big-techs…
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
The #DMA workshops were distorted by the hidden networks of @amazon, @Meta, Alphabet, @Apple, @BytedanceTalk & @Microsoft.
Our research shows1️⃣in5️⃣participants of the public DMA workshops had close ties with #BigTech companies.
Full investigation👉somo.nu/40ijIgd
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
🔎Big Tech has built a massive network of lawyers and lobbyists to skew debate in its favour.
🚨Now new research by @CEO @LobbyControland @SOMO shows how 21% of registrants of the public #DMA workshops had close and undisclosed ties with Big Tech.
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corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
📢 New Report: Making Access to EU Documents a Reality
Today, we release targeted recommendations for EU institutions on how to address the practical challenges many face when exercising their right to access EU documents.
Read the full report here: access-info.org/2024-10-28/m…
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
Big Tech is on a recruitment spree hiring EU antitrust officials who until recently investigated the tech giants
In an op'ed with @lobbycontrol we explain why it is time to close the revolving door, before corporate power spins out of control
euobserver.com/eu-political/…
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
A few weeks ago, yet another EU competition official joined a law firm to work for clients facing antitrust investigations. DG Competition's spinning revolving door is putting the integrity of the EU’s competition policy at severe risk.
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LobbyControl Tech retweeted
🔎 @amazoneu has been under-reporting its lobby budget for years.
📈Following a complaint we did with @lobbycontrol and @SOMO, Amazon was forced to disclose it is spending €5 million influencing the EU.
6⃣ Amazon is now the 6th largest lobby spender
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LobbyControl Tech retweeted
🚨The lobby group @Allied4Startups has been inviting Members of the @EUparliament to its “VIP Policy Dinner” this evening.
Allied for Startups is a Big Tech front group.
🚪MEPs should not open the door to Big Tech’s shady lobbying tactics.
A thread 👇
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
Keep a breakup of #Google on the table in the @EU_commission ad tech case, say a group of civil society groups in a letter to @vestager and @Teresaribera. "Lesser tools [...] will fail here," they write, asking DG COMP to work with 🇺🇸 @JusticeATR in designing a divestment.
LobbyControl Tech retweeted
Wondering about the influence of #BigTech on the EU agenda via #astroturfing SME organisations and sponsored #thinktanks?
Check out the mapping of financial links by two NGOs @lobbycontrol @corporateeurope
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LobbyControl Tech retweeted
🚨Yet another high-level @EU_Competition official is going through the revolving door.
Khan represented the @EU_Commission in major antitrust cases against Google. Now he is joining the law firm which represented Google in those exact same cases.
monckton.com/european-and-co…
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Veronika Grimm, member of the german council of economic advisors AND of Siemens Energys supervisory board, sues her council colleagues, cause they want to introduce compliance rules against conflicts of interest. You have a conflict of interest on your own and you sue others? 😡