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Elon Musk's power to abuse his platform to promote his own interests and to influence public discourse is a threat to our democracy. /3

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🚨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/2025/01/bia… 🧵

‼️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🧵

Chinese e-commerce platform Temu does not declare any lobbying in Europe, neither in Brussels & Berlin nor at its headquarters in Dublin. Temu is evading contact and rules in order to expand aggressively. The EU must take tougher action against Temu. lobbycontrol.de/macht-der-digi…

Irritating to see @Teresaribera deliver one of her first political speeches at the annual conference of a consultancy that represents corporate clients against the Commission in merger cases. We hope to see other signals soon, such as a break-up of Google (Google-Adtech case).

@Kanoknai @corporateeurope @ALTEREU @foeeurope @Access_Info eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…

@lobbyctrl_tech @corporateeurope @ALTEREU @foeeurope @Access_Info Could you please indicate the name of the Regulation or other EU laws in which these provisions shown are provided ?

🚨Breaking news: with the new term, the European Comission increases transparency massively. From now on, more than 1500 officials need to disclose lobby meetings and minutes, 1100 more than before. 10 years ago, we came up with this demand. Now it is reality. Persistence works.

Why Elon Musk might care so much about Federal government has been featured in today's Chartbook Top Link. Sign up here for more: tinyurl.com/4wd7ewd9

And here is what german TV documentary plusminus found: It has sources at hand that show how Amazon internally abuses its dominant position against businesses on its platform. tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unt… 3/

Here is what Japan's competition authority found: japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/… 2/

New evidence Amazon is abusing its market power. Surely interesting for competition watchdogs @Kartellamt & @EU_Competition to consider new evidence revealed by Japan's competition authority and by german TV @DasErste. Time to make use of structural remedies against Amazon.👇1/

💥Black Friday is #MakeAmazonPay Day! ✊🏿join us! theguardian.com/business/2024/…

🚨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

Let's jointly build up public pressure against tech monopolies. The protests against Amazon during #BlackWeek, such as the @berlinvsamazon demonstration on Friday, could be the starting point for this. 11/

In order to push back the power of Amazon and other tech companies, we need an international anti-monopoly movement. Our allies on the other side of the Atlantic need us more than ever after Trump got re-elected and Big Tech billionaire Elon Musk is part of the government. 10/

Misleasing information on lobbying expenses and disrespectful behavior towards parliaments - Amazon defends its problematic business model with problematic methods. It's time to break up Amazon's power: lobbycontrol.de/macht-der-digi… 1/ #blackweek #BlackFriday