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The sad truth about the Fakebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, and other digital mafioso

The Facebook Papers, AP News

Enshittification, Wikipedia, 2024-12-29

The Paypal Mafia, WikiSpooks, 

MAANG Companies - Who Are These Tech Giants?, Futurense,

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

Evgeny Morozov: After the Facebook scandal it’s time to base the digital economy on public v private ownership of data, the Guardian, 2018-04-01

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, Marcus on AI, 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

Lobbying power of Amazon, Google and Co. continues to grow, Corporate Europe Observatory. 2023-09-08

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

Tech companies spend more than €100 million a year on EU digital lobbying, EuroNews, 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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How Facebook spreads hate, Delancey Place, 2024-12-04

Taylor Owen: On the Coming Merger of Tech and State Power, TechPolicyPress, 2024-11-26

John Naughton: Our perverse respect for immense wealth allows Musk and Zuckerberg to run riot, the Guardian, 2024-10-26

US says it may break up Google after landmark case, BBC, 2024-10-09

Timothy Graham: Is big tech harming society? To find out, we need research – but it’s being manipulated by big tech itself, the Conversation, 2024-10-03

Lars Erik Holmquist: AI probably isn’t the big smartphone selling point that Apple and other tech giants think it is, the Conversation, 2024-09-30

John Naughton: By showing Musk’s X the red card, has Brazil scored a goal for all democracies?, the Guardian, 2024-09-15

Richard Denniss: Tech billionaire Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire. It’s a sign markets aren’t working, the Conversation, 2024-09-11

Apple's iPhone 16 faces rising challenges with AI delay and growing Huawei competition, Reuters, 2024-09-10

Facebook-partner lytter til samtaler i nærheten av smarttelefoner, Digi.no, 2024-09-05

Mark Zuckerberg: Covid censorship was wrong and I wish I’d fought it, the Telegraph, 2024-08-27

Meta's staunch support for Israel shines through amid Gaza genocide, Tehran Times, 2024-08-26

Jonathan Cook: First, Elon Musk made us pay for 'free speech'. Now he decides who's allowed it, 2024-08-20

Henry Farrell: What went wrong with the Silicon Valley right, Programmable Mutter, 2024-08-20

John Naughton: If Google’s monopoly is broken, it will be good for consumers – and the company too, the Guardian, 2024-08-17

John Naughton: Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy, the Guardian, 2024-08-03

Tom Faber: ‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?, the Guardian, 2024-07-20

Apple warns iPhone users in 98 countries including India of Pegasus-like possible 'spyware attack', the New Indian Express, 2024-07-11

Has Capitalism Been Replaced by “Technofeudalism”?, the New Yorker, 2024-03-25

Henry Farrell: Google AI fails the taste test, Programmable Mutter, 2024-05-27

Når eliten sier det rett ut: hvem som helst får skrive på X (Twitter), Foreningen Lov og helse, 2024-05-17

Technology crushing human creativity? Apple’s new iPad ad has struck a nerve online, AP News, 2024-05-11

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

Technofeudalism -a video essay summarising the book, Yanis Varoufakis, 2024-02-04

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

2025 (nyeste først:)

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Krystal Kauffman:The Human Cost of Big Tech’s Cosmic Dreams, the Opinion Pages, 2025-11-25

Ryan Tate: How American Big Tech guards the profits it extracts around the world, the MarkUp, 2025-11-22

Brian Merchant: Trump and big tech take two more stabs at ending AI democracy, Blood in the Machine, 2025-11-21

Musk the trillionaire? Debate over his Tesla pay package rages, AP News, 2025-11-05

John Naughton: Musk’s war on Wikipedia is a fight for a future without fact-checking, the Observer, 2025-11-01

Nicholas Carr: I Am a Data Factory (and So Are You), New Cartographies, 2025-11-02

Websites disabled in Microsoft global outage come back online, BBC, 2025-10-30

Microsoft Azure suffers major outage while AWS denies new issue, the Independent, 2025-10-29

Musk launches Grokipedia to rival 'left-biased' Wikipedia, Barron's, 2025-10-28

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points, Wired, 2025-10-27

What caused Amazon’s AWS outage, and why did so many major apps go offline?, Al Jazeera, 2025-10-21

How Google organized opposition to a California privacy proposal, CalMatters, 2025-09-12

John Mac Ghlionn: Peter Thiel’s gospel of fear is control sold as salvation, Asia Times, 2025-09-06

Nicholas Carr: Is Google Making Us Stupid?, New Cartographies, 2025-08-31

Casey Mock: Meta’s AI Companion Policy is Outrageous, After Babel, 2025-08-22

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info, Reuters, 2025-08-14

Ian Leslie: Rationalist Cults of Silicon Valley, the Ruffian, 2025-08-16

John Naughton: Zuckerberg’s ‘superintelligence’ sermon suggests Meta is lacking belief, the Observer, 2025-08-15

Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians, +972 Magazine, 2025-08-06

Dave Karpf: Mark Zuckerberg is Out of Ideas, TechPolicy Press, 2025-08-01

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance, EFF, 2025-07-18

Reagerer på Metas nye grep: – Blir nødt til å dele personopplysninger, NRK, 2025-07-25

Henry Farrell: When tech CEOs are like grumpy ducklings, Programmable Mutter, 2025-07-19

Emily Brownlee: The All-New Big Tech American School, After Babel, 2025-06-25

The Coming Age of Tech Trillionaires and the Challenge to Democracy, TechPolicy Press

“These Companies Are Not Your Friend”: Journalist Carole Cadwalladr on Facebook, OpenAI, Palantir & More, Democracy Now, 2025-06-05

Tech Power and the Crisis of Democracy, TechPolicy Press, 2025-06-04

How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce, Rest of World, 2025-04-22

Meta's role in silencing Palestinian narratives, Tehran Times, 2025-04-12

Nicholas Carr: Epistemological Slop, New Cartographies, 2025-04-10

John Naughton: Whistleblower’s exposé of the cult of Zuckerberg reveals peril of power-crazy tech bros, the Guardian, 2025-03-15

PayPal Mafia, Wikipedia, 2025-02-11

Zena Assaad: Google has dropped its promise not to use AI for weapons. It’s part of a troubling trend, the Conversation, 2025-02-10

Ulises Ali Mejias: Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown, Al Jazeera, 2025-02-09

Google pledge against using AI for weapons vanishes, Japan Today, 2025-02-06

Gary Marcus: Google, 2001: Don’t Be Evil, Marcus on AI, 2025-02-05

US tech CEOs admit they want AI monopoly & ‘unipolar world’, blocking China’s competition, Geopolitical Economy, 2025-02-03

Israel and Google: Partners in the first AI-enabled genocide, Tehran Times, 2025-01-22

Charted: The Rise of AI Hyperscaler Spending, Visual Capitalist, 2025-01-16

Dave Karpf: Mark Zuckerberg's commitment to free speech is as deep as Exxon's commitment to clean energy, The Future, Now and Then, 2025-01-09

Big Tech rolls out red carpet for Trump,France24, 2025-01-08

Jonathan Cook: Billionaires dangle free speech like a bauble. We gawp like open-mouthed babes, Jonathan Cook, 2025-01-08

Apple to pay $95m to settle claims Siri listened to users’ private conversations, the Guardian, 2025-01-03

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“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

― Eric Hoffer (1898-1983)