“We can defeat them, the big tech industry has a playbook, but we also have a playbook” said @bramvranken.bsky.social in conversation with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social , @margaridasilva.bsky.social and @nataliaviana.bsky.social , at #ijf26 conference

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."

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Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Have you read the article?

The article quotes 10 legal experts who do think this contravenes the Aarhus Convention, and this info cannot just be shielded off by a delegated act.

It is in the Delegated Act implementing the Directive - eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

"We reject the accusation of ad verbatim copy-pasting of industry lobbying," the EU Commission told AFP in response to our latest Investigate Europe investigation exposing how big tech wrote a law that hides their data centre's environmental footprint.

Well, judge for yourself.

Copy, paste, govern: Microsoft ghostwrote EU policy that keeps data centers’ energy use secret

The latest investigation by @investigate-europe.eu is based on insights by @algorithmwatch.org and @corporateeurope.org

Read the incredible story here: algorithmwatch.org/en/copy-past...

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.

New: Big Tech secures secrecy in EU data centre law, keeping critical environmental information out of reach.

Microsoft and DigitalEurope – a lobby representing Amazon, Google and Meta – successfully pushed for an amendment classifying information on individual facilities as confidential.

An incredible story of how the Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment to keep crucial environmental information on data centres hidden.

Great to have worked on this with @algorithmwatch.org and thanks to @investigate-europe.eu to dig into the story.

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Big Tech wrote the EU law that hides their data centres' environmental impact.

The EU wants to triple its data centre capacity in the next five years. While the full scale of their energy and water footprint is hidden from the public.

Our new @investigate-europe.eu investigation reveals why.

✊ We were honoured to join the launching event of the German coalition against deregulation!

👏 @powershift.bsky.social @globalpolicyforum.bsky.social @buerokratiemonster.bsky.social @finanzwende.de @lobbycontrol.bsky.social &+!

👀DeregulationWatch for info on EU corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Roger Sollenberger: Péter Magyar, the new Hungarian prime minister, says CPAC was paid by the Hungarian government and will not be any longer

Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is

Thrilled to be going to @journalismfestival.com to talk Big Tech lobbying with the amazing @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
@nataliaviana.bsky.social @bramvranken.bsky.social

If you are around and want to know how to expose Big Tech power, join us!

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European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

‼️Please sign & help spread this EU citizens’ initiative to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement

It’s really important — we’re almost at 700,000 signatures!!
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🇭🇺 As we wait to know on Sunday the future of Hungary, the chances of Orbán’s defeat give hope that the rise of far-right in Europe can be stopped.

But his propaganda machine has spread over Europe.

We’ve been looking into it, here’s what we know:
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Joint Open Letter: Preserving the Scope and Integrity of the AI Act CDT Europe joined civil society organisations and individuals in a public letter raising concerns about proposed changes to Annex I of the AI Act.

📢 In the context of the ongoing trilogue negotiations on the #AI Omnibus proposal, together with 32 other organisations and individuals, we contributed to an open letter to EU institutions, expressing our concerns about current proposals that could weaken the scope and effectiveness of the AI Act.

If so, Europe must abandon the omnibus deregulatory onslaught and instead resuscitate its ability to plan the damn green transition

EU’s AI Act Delays Let High-Risk Systems Dodge Oversight The EU has delayed key rules in its AI Act, including safeguards for high-risk systems, a ban on nudifier apps, and guidance on sector-specific laws.

The EU’s plan to delay key provisions of its AI Act could leave some high-risk AI systems permanently unregulated, reports Joana Soares. While nudifier apps face a ban, sector-specific carve-outs and postponed deadlines raise concerns about weakened oversight.

Oil companies rake in €81.4 million extra daily in the EU as fuel prices soar - Greenpeace European Unit EU governments must urgently tax fossil fuel profits to alleviate energy bills and to speed up investments in cheap, safe and home-grown renewables

An energy crisis is not a crisis for *everyone*

Since the war in Iran started, oil companies in the EU have been getting an EXTRA €81.4 million in profit EVERY DAY as the prices of petrol and diesel go through the roof

Governments and the EU must tax these profits to help ordinary people

Big tech is coming for the midterms And Silicon Valley's agenda is bad news for working people.

What do they all want? The answer is simple: to be free of the pesky meddling of regulators and legislators. They want to stop federal and state government regulation of the tech industry in general and artificial intelligence in particular.

KNDS, Elbit Systems Team Up to Sell EuroPULS to European Militaries KNDS and Israel-based Elbit Systems Land have agreed to a joint venture to market the EuroPULS rocket artillery system to European forces.

Despite Elbit's fuelling of genocide, European defense company KNDS agrees 50:50 joint venture with Israel-based Elbit Systems to market EuroPULS rocket artillery system
#BusinessAsUsual
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This is what corporate capture looks like! | Corporate Europe Observatory Where do the EU deregulation laws come from? From extensive talks between the European Commission and business groups, often in opaque new types of dialogue, according to the report “This is what corp...

Commissioner Séjourné held 84 meetings on #deregulation.
All 84 were with business groups.

Not one civil society org. Not one.

This isn't consultation.
This is what corporate capture looks like.

🧵 Check out our new report 👇
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Big Tech sets unfair terms and conditions for AI data workers globally - SOMO Behind most AI products are thousands of workers who label, annotate, and clean data. Their work is essential but largely precarious and invisible.

Big Tech relies heavily on thousands of data workers for their AI products.

While these workers are hired through intermediaries, Big Tech firms are responsible for their unstable and unfair working conditions.🚨

Read our analysis: www.somo.nl/big-tech-set...

🏭 @ec.europa.eu softened climate goals in draft data centre rating scheme

Notably, data centres operators will no longer be required to report server utilisation

@euractiv.com
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Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder

💥 Some good news to start the day with. Google and Meta have been found liable in the US for their addictive algorithms.

🫵 Now it's up to @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social to press ahead with the Digital Fairness Act, and resist the tech industry's lobby offensive to get the proposal scrapped.

Inside the far-right network targeting Europe’s digital rules | Corporate Europe Observatory The Trump administration and a network of far-right think tanks are increasingly targeting the EU’s digital regulations and rules on content moderation. Far-right MEPs have taken over these narratives...

⚠️ @obsmultinationales.bsky.social exposed how a far-right network and the Trump admin are fiercely attacking EU digital rules.

❌ US officials are putting direct pressure on the EU
❌ Dodgy think tanks are spreading false narratives in Brussels
❌ Big Tech is increasingly meeting with far-right MEPs

Trump Threatens to Cut Off EU's American LNG Supplies - Washington Today US President Donald Trump is threatening to cut off American liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies to the European Union if Brussels refuses to ratify a trade agreement favorable to Washington. The US ...

The EU moved away from Russian gas so it couldn't be weaponised by Putin.

But rather than reducing energy demand + rolling out renewables, it doubled down on US LNG.

Now Trump threatens to cut off supply if the EU doesn't ratify their trade deal. Weaponised x10.

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EU leaders gather today in Brussels to discuss how to make Europe more competitive.

Across Europe, trade unions have been sending the same message: the solution lies in investment, not deregulation.

A 🧵 of what unions have been saying ahead of today's meeting of EU leaders ⤵️

Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby The EU’s flagship water law is under threat amid a concerted lobbying blitz from the mining industry. New analysis by DeSmog reveals sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the re...

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Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby

Industry meetings w/ EU officials tripled ahead of release of EU Commission strategy doc pledging to 'review and revise' the Water Framework Directive

📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social w/ @euobserver.com

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