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The Facebook Papers, AP News
Jaron Lanier: The False Ideals of the Web, New York Times, 2012-01-18
Christo Wilson: Buyer beware, online shopping prices vary user to user, the Conversation, 2014-11-03
Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini: How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name, FastCompany, 2015-11-10
The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police, MIT Technology Review, 2020-06-12
Mark Zuckerberg’s Pact with the Devil, I Cringely, 2020-07-22
Big Tech CEOs ready defenses for U.S. Congress hearing into their growing power, Reuters, 2020-07-23
Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google, the Markup, 2020-07-28
Congressman Says The Markup Investigation Proves Google Has Created a “Walled Garden”, the Markup, 2020-07-29
U.S. lawmakers accuse Big Tech of crushing rivals to boost profits, Japan Times, 2020-07-30
At big tech hearing, non-denials speak louder than words, Reuters, 2020-07-30
Congress forced Silicon Valley to answer for its misdeeds. It was a glorious sight, the Guardian, 2020-07-30
I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible, New York Times, 2020-07-31
What Years of Emails and Texts Reveal About Your Friendly Tech Companies, New York Times, 2020-08-04
US 'Cloud' Supremacy Has Europe Worried About Data, News24X7WORLD, 2020-08-04
To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo, the Markup, 2020-08-07
Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial, the Guardian, 2020-08-16
Amazon Is a Private Government. Congress Needs to Step Up, the Atlantic, 2020-08-19
Det fejas på golvet för Mr. Bezos, Steigan, 2020-09-02
How Amazon Quietly Powers The Internet, Forbes, 2020-09-03
The Rise of Digital Despots, the Walrus, 2020-09-23
Big Tech Lobbying, Corporate Europe Observatory, 2020-09-23
Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers, VoxEU, 2020-09-30
Thank you for posting: Smoking’s lessons for regulating social media, MIT Technology Review, 2020-10-05
US lawmakers call for shakeup of big tech 'monopoly power' in antitrust report,DW, 2020-10-07
Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show, CNET, 2020-10-08
Google: From ‘don’t be evil’ to target of DOJ antitrust lawsuit, Al jazeera, 2020-10-20
Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet, New York Times, 2020-10-25
Congress Fails to Ask Tech CEOs the Hard Questions, EFF, 2020-10-29
What it's like to get locked out of Google indefinitely, Business Insider, 2020-10-31
How to Save Democracy From Technology, Foreign Affairs, 2020-11-24
No Escape From Our Techno-Feudal World, the Saker, 2020-12-03
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says, MIT Technology Review, 2020-12-04
The End of the Facebook Crime Spree, BIG By Matt Stoller, 2020-12-10
Hvem eier IT-gigantene?, Steigan, 2020-12-27
2021
In Georgia, Facebook’s Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed, the MarkUp Citizen Browser, 2021-01-05
Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformed. Here’s how., MIT Technology Review, 2021-01-10
Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It., Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2021-02-19
Jennifer Grygiel: Facebook’s news blockade in Australia shows how tech giants are swallowing the web, the Conversation, 2021-02-25
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation, MIT Technology Review, 2021-03-11
What’s Up with the Apple App Store’s PrivacyChanges?, The Markup, 2021-03-16
The free press versus Facebook and Google, OpenDemocracy, 2021-03-17
Google and the Age of Privacy Theater, Wired, 2021-03-18
All the data Google’s apps collect about you and how to stop it, Wired, 2021-04-05
Wikipedia’s Deep Ties to Big Tech, Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2021-04-05
Another huge data breach, another stony silence from Facebook, Guardian, 2021-04-11
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens, Guardian, 2021-04-12
It’s time to ditch Chrome, Wired, 2021-06-06
Lawmakers, Taking Aim at Big Tech, Push Sweeping Overhaul of Antitrust, New York Times, 2021-06-14
Huge changes for internet and Big Tech under US antitrust proposal, AFP, 2021-06-19
Huge changes for internet and Big Tech under U.S. antitrust proposal, Japan Today, 2021-06-21
De kule, de smarte og den virkelige makta, Steigan, 2021-06-26
Techno-Feudalism Is Taking Over – Project Syndicate op-ed, Yanis Varoufakis, 2021-06-28
How Google and Wikipedia Brainwash You, NewBraveWorld, 2021-07-07
Big Tech Has Outgrown This Planet, New York Times, 2021-07-29
Facebook’s Illusory Promise of Transparency, Freedom to Tinker, 2021-08-05
The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy, Edward Snowden, 2021-08-26
Kaitlyn Tiffany: Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago, the Atlantic, 2021-08-31
Facebook has known for a year and a half that Instagram is bad for teens despite claiming otherwise – here are the harms researchers have been documenting for years, the Conversation, 2021-09-16
John Naughton: Want to save the Earth? Then don’t buy that shiny new iPhone, the Guardian, 2021-09-18
The Largest Autocracy on Earth, the Atlantic, 2021-09-27
Blowing the whistle on Facebook is just the first step, the Conversationalist, 2021-10-05
Facebook’s moral quandary, Harvard Gazette, 2021-10-07
Bowing to investors, Microsoft will make its devices easier to fix, Grist, 2021-10-07
China is cutting its tech giants down to size. Should the west learn from this?, the Guardian, 2021-10-09
Amazon Puts Its Own “Brands” First Above Better-Rated Products, the Markup, 2021-10-14
John Naughton: Apple’s plan to scan images will allow governments into smartphones, the Guardian, 2021-10-16
"Black box" Amazon: algorithm discriminates customers, noyb, 2021-10-21
John Naughton: Whistleblowing requires courage, but don’t expect Facebook to change its ways, the Guardian, 2021-10-23
Facebook i hardt vær, anklagene tårner seg opp, ABC Nyheter, 2021-10-26
Why the writing is on the wall for Facebook, the Guardian, 2021-10-26
Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game, the Register, 2021-11-01
Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap Could Change the Repair Industry Forever, IFIXIT, 2021-11-04
John Naughton: How can we tame the tech giants now that they control society’s infrastructure?, the Guardian, 2021-11-06
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation, MIT Technology Review, 2021-11-20
John Naughton: Can big tech ever be reined in?, the Guardian, 2021-11-21
2022
John Naughton: As a new year dawns, expect a fresh assault on big tech, the Guardian, 2022-01-01
Google and DuckDuckGo Handle Dr. Robert Malone’s Claims About “Mass Formation Psychosis” Very Differently, The Liberty Daily, 2022-01-01
The metaverse is dystopian – but to big tech it’s a business opportunity, the Guardian, 2022-01-29
The Myth of Tech Exceptionalism, NOEMA Magazine, 2022-02-10
Facebook loses users for the first time in its history, Washington Post, 2022-02-03
Herredømme i Metaverset, Steigan, 2022-02-18
Yanis Varoufakis: Our New Cloud-Based Ruling Class, Project Syndicate, 2022-02-23
The metaverse will steal your identity, UnHerd, 2022-03-03
John Naughton: Is Google’s domination of the internet finally over? Search me…, the Guardian, 2022-03-19
Nikita Mazurov: I Want You Back: Getting My Personal Data From Amazon Was Weeks of Confusion and Tedium, the Intercept, 2022-03-27
Eric Zeng: Why ‘bad’ ads appear on ‘good’ websites – a computer scientist explains, the Conversation, 2022-04-13
Pepe Escobar – Big Tech’s ‘Cancel Culture’ Love Affair, Consortium News, 2022-04-21
Ralph Nader: The Super Immunity of Our Fabulously Wealthy Corporate Dictators, Common Dreams, 2022-05-14
Sea Change, Rest of World, 2022-05-18
John Naughton: What do Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have in common? An unhealthy Twitter habit, the Guardian, 2022-05-21
Lynn Parramore: Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?, Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2022-05-31
Apple Just Killed the Password—for Real This Time, Wired, 2022-06-07
The era of big-tech exceptionalism may be over, the Economist, 2022-07-27
What Happens when Big Brother Meets Big Tech, Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2022-07-13
An Economy of Overfed Middlemen, BIG by Matt Stoller, 2022-07-19
National Security Search Engine: Google's Ranks are Filled with CIA Agents, Mint Press, 2022-07-25
John Naughton: Like Bill Gates before him, Mark Zuckerberg is having a ‘Pearl Harbour’ moment, the Guardian, 2022-07-30
Facebook’s Pervasive Pixel, the MarkUp, 2022-08-20
John Naughton: Google’s image-scanning illustrates how tech firms can penalise the innocent, the Guardian, 2022-09-04
Nicholas Carah and Aimee Brownbill: How dark is ‘dark advertising’? We audited Facebook, Google and other platforms to find out, the Conversation, 2022-09-06
How Social Media Influences Our Behavior, and Vice Versa, DateLine, 2022-09-01
Julia Schreiner Benito: Jeg sitter i Facebooks fengsel. Det er min egen skyld, Steigan, 2022-09-22
AWS, Microsoft, Google own 72% of Euro customer cloud spending, the Register, 2022-09-29
Tech Billionaires Are Actually Dumber Than You Think, Countercurrents, 2022-10-01
Big Tech: Not Only Market But Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers, Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2022-10-04
Twitter is a Weapon, not a Business, Who is Robert Malone, 2022-10-12
Dr Aseem Malhotra on being censored online: 'Facebook is the enemy of democracy', GBNews - YouTube, 2022-10-12
Facebook suspended British Cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra for sharing report by Florida’s Surgeon General, Reclaim the Net, 2022-10-14
Western online dictatorship, Tehran Times, 2022-10-30
Ways to think about a metaverse, Benedict Evans, 2022-10-31
How Big Tech became an arm of the state, Spiked, 2022-11-01
Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online, MIT Technology Review, 2022-11-18
Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users’ Financial Information to Facebook, the MarkUp, 2022-11-22
John Naughton: Alexa, how did Amazon’s voice assistant rack up a $10bn loss?, the Guardian, 2022-11-26
Larry Romanoff: Apple’s Rotten Core, UNZ Review, 2022-11-26
Larry Romanoff: Your Chinese Apple, UNZ Review, 2022-11-26
State of Big Tech 2022: Dismantling Digital Enclosures, IT for Change
2023
'Industry' and the State (Twitter Files 11 & 12), God's Spies by Thomas Neuburger, 2023-01-11
Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Activists Pushing for Generic Vaccine, the Intercept, 2023-01-16
John Naughton: Why has Alphabet hit the panic button? Only Google can answer that question, the Guardian, 2023-01-28
In 2023, Resolve to Fix Your Organization’s Meta Pixel Problem, the MarkUp, 2023-01-31
“Check Your Pixels”, the MarkUp, 2023-02-11
Gary Marcus: What Google Should Really Be Worried About, The Road to AI We Can Trust, 2023-02-12
John Naughton: Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet, the Gurdian, 2023-03-11
Paris Marx: The TikTok Ban Isn’t About National Security. It’s About the Global Dominance of US Tech., Jacobin, 2023-04-11
Cory Doctorow Explains Why Big Tech Is Making the Internet Terrible, Jacobin, 2023-05-07
Paris Marx: Google wants to take over the web, Disconnect, 2023-05-11
John Herrman: How Mark Zuckerberg Led the Tech Industry Into a Metaverse Wasteland, New York Magazine Intelligencer, 2023-05-10
John Naughton: A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse, the Guardian, 2023-05-13
The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse, Sapiens, 2023-05-24
After Mass Layoffs, Silicon Valley Renews Lobbying Biden to Lift Cap on Foreign Workers, Lee Fang, 2023-06-12
John Naughton: Power and Progress review – why the tech-equals-progress narrative must be challenged, the Guardian, 2023-05-07
Google the Gatekeeper: How Search Components Affect Clicks and Attention, ICWSM 2023-06-02 (PDF)
Apple faces $1 billion UK lawsuit by apps developers over app store fees, Reuters, 2023-07-25
EU targets Apple, Amazon, Meta and other Big Tech in next phase of digital crackdown, AP News, 2023-09-06
Dave Karpf: We should all be Luddites now, The Future, Now and Then, 2023-09-08
Scott Galloway: Searching for a Breakup, No Mercy/No Malice, 2023-09-15
Everyone Versus Google: Will Big Tech Be Held Accountable?, Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2023-09-28
John Naughton: Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?, the Guardian, 2023-09-30
States sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children’s mental health, AP News, 2023-10-26
The Attention Economy Goes to Court, Project Syndicate, 2023-11-09
Sherry Turkle: Silicon Valley Fairy Dust, Crooked Timber, 2023-11-06
Apple knows who hacked politicians’ phones. Why isn’t it telling?, Rest of World, 2023-11-07
Diana Enríquez: Between the Algorithm and a Hard Place: The Worker's Dilemma, Tech Policy Press, 2023-12-11
Marwa Fatata: Even in time of genocide, Big Tech silences Palestinians, Al Jazeera, 2023-12-12
False Prophets: How Zuckerberg and Musk Mislead the Digital Economy, SciTech Daily, 2023-12-14
Svensk avis lavede afsløring om Tesla – nu sker der noget mærkeligt, når man trykker på linket, Berlingske, 2023-12-18
What Is Google’s Real Business?, Mind Matters, 2023-12-23
Visualizing How Big Tech Companies Make Their Billions, Visual Capitalist, 2023-12-28
2024 (nyeste først):
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Dave Karpf: The Gravitational Force of Tech Money, The Future, Now and Then, 2024-03-13
Elite Fear Of The Public: Ukraine, Gaza and Assange, Media Lens, 2024-02-22
Adrienne LaFrance: The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism, the Atlantic, 2024-01-30
My McLuhan lecture on enshittification, Cory Doctorow, 2024-01-30
Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies, the MarkUp, 2024-01-17
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