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Inside Big Tech’s playbook to halt media compensation laws Meta and Google ran public campaigns, made threats to stop serving news, struck private deals and mobilized prominent supporters to try to influence or stall laws in Brazil, Canada, Indonesia and Aust...

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‘Renting your enemy’: How Google paid the media millions to avoid regulatory pressure Google has signed more than 2,000 contracts with news outlets worldwide in the past five years

We uncover how Google paid the media millions to avoid regulations, signing more than 2,000 secret contracts with publishers. A critic calls it “renting your enemy.” Our investigation into Big Tech lobbying continues with other news outlets around the world.
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IJF joins 17 international news outlets to document lobbying by Big Tech companies Nine-month investigation covered how some of the world’s most powerful companies have tried to avoid regulation in Canada and 12 other countries

We’ve joined 17 news outlets from around the world to dig into how big #tech companies have tried to stall, delay or kill legislation aimed at regulating them. Stay tuned over the coming weeks as we publish the reports from this nine-month investigation.

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Tomorrow: #BigTechsInvisibleHand, an investigation by 17 media outlets in 13 countries, reveals nearly 3,000 lobbying actions by companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and TikTok to curb regulations and protect their interests. @techpolicypress.bsky.social @lighthousereports.com