Algorithm, weโre onto you. Letโs build a better digital world.
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๐จ New: For too long, Google's monopolistic practices have undercut competition & blocked innovation. Together with Duck Duck Go, search engines, browsers, civil + consumer groups, we're calling on the EU Commission to act. The Digital Markets Act must be enforced.
We have tools, let's use 'em! ๐ ๏ธ
The internet was ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป๐ to be a space where anything was possible and everyone has an equal voice. That feels less and less true - especially on ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ platforms (owned by Tech Bro Billionaires) more than others ('decentralised' ones)
Check out The People for a deep dive on the harms of Big Tech every fortnight and check out our suggested ways to push back!
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When someone you donโt know asks for your personal information, most of us know it is probably a scam - especially when they promise the world. With the romance between AI and Billionaire Tech Bros strengthening, how do we know it is not a scam? Which governments (if any) promise to keep our personal information and planet safe?
Head to the link in our bio to read all about it - brilliant reporting from Alice McCool.
We're finding new ways of calling out Big Tech, outside of the Big Tech platforms.
Check us out distributing a zine version of our newsletter in the UK Parliament!
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Am I a conspiracy theorist? Alice McCool reports on the allegations against M*ta as users struggled to access Democrat hashtags + unfollow Trumpโs account โ and how it's all making it harder to distinguish reality from conspiracy ๐ต
Full story here https://blog.peoplevsbig.tech/am-i-a-conspiracy-theorist/
Ctrl+Alt+Reclaim is a new movement of young people from across Europe fighting to reclaim our digital future from billionairesโ pockets.
๐ At the end of last year, Adele Walton and 16 other young people went to the EU Parliament to launch their movement.
๐ค Join them in tackling the Tech Bros: https://ctrl-alt-reclaim.github.io/
โ Ctrl + Alt + Reclaim โ A Youth Manifesto for our Digital World. As the first generation to grow up online, we understand all that the internet can bring: community and connection across continents and cultures, participation in movements that can change the world, instant access to information and services on a scale never dreamed of in history. But a tiny group of CEOs have taken this gift, this product of collective creativity โ and claimed it for themselves. Theyโve commandeered its networks; walled in its profits; built vast, opaque monopolies that answer to no one. And in the process, theyโve put our lives at risk. Hereโs how:
Meta is reportedly blocking #Democrat and #DNC on Instagram.
When searching for these hashtags, some users are seeing a message that reads "We have hidden these results". But these users say they are still able to see posts when searching for #Republican or #GOP.
