People Vs Big Tech

The Big Tech Lobby Playbook - Rewriting digital rules globally - SOMO This series of articles by SOMO dives into specific examples of Big Tech lobbying and how they helped shape laws and politics in their favour.

Out now: SOMO presents the Big Tech Lobby Playbook 🔍🚨
It exposes how Big Tech’s corporate lobbying is in a league of its own.
These giants don’t just engage with lawmakers and policy processes - they shape the
environment in which laws are imagined and debated.
Read more:
somo.nl/big-tech-lob...

Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law - People vs. Big Tech YouGov polling across 5 major EU countries also reveals that 70% of respondents want further action against X if it fails to respond to data privacy and

New YouGov polling across 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇱 shows strong public support for EU action on X.

60–78% say the EU should take further steps if X fails to address breaches of EU law.
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Graphic by Corporate Europe Observatory promoting a report titled ‘Profiting from Addiction: Big Tech’s lobbying to keep us hooked on social media.’ A young person looks down at a smartphone, illuminated in blue light, while stylised purple shapes suggest addiction or control. Corporate Europe Observatory logo and website are shown.

🤳 Open phone for one thing. 1h later, you remember it again, after feeling your brain melted by doomscrolling and brainrot.

That’s not a personal failure — it’s by design. The EU wants to curb it. Big Tech is #lobbying hard to keep you hooked.

👀 our new report 👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

Defend the Right to Research We have the right to know what harms tech giants are exposing us to, but they’re doing everything to avoid transparency and accountability. #WhatAreTheyHiding? Join CCDH and call for the right to res...

Defend the right to research and protect democracy: act.counterhate.com/page/185208/...

#WhatAreTheyHiding

And yes: the far right is helping push this deregulatory agenda.

Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...

The EU’s “Digital Omnibus” is being sold as simplification. Analysis shows something else: major changes that tilt the rules toward Big Tech-weakening privacy, AI safeguards, and accountability.

corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

A London bus stop that says "who the fuck would want to use social media with a built in child abuse tool"?

Elon Musk’s X is helping people create indecent images of KIDS. His response to outcry this week? He doesn’t give a f*ck.

Imagine his face if millions get the f*ck off of X though. Join millions deleting their accounts.

Link in bio to download this poster for free and spread this worldwide.

Our report with @crtl-alt-reclaimfr.bsky.social shows that young people want to be included in decision making on social media regulation. They want design changes to social media rather than blunt age-bans, and they want investment in European alternatives to the social media giants.

‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back

@crtl-alt-reclaimfr.bsky.social started out as a small bootcamp in Summer'24 - bringing together young people from around Europe who wanted to do something about the harm that social media was doing to young lives. Now it’s a pan-European movement, see Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

Our report with ctrl+alt+reclaim shows that young people want to be included in decision making on social media regulation. They want design changes to social media rather than blunt age-bans, and they want investment in European alternatives to the social media giants.

PeoplevsBigTech & @ctrlaltreclaim’s new report exposes the "silent crisis" of mental health fueled by platform design and how young people are fighting back across Europe. 👇

ctrl-alt-reclaim.webflow.io/reports/youn...

Wir sagen nein zur Deregulierung des Digitalrechts! @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨 Ursula! Fight for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros.

Today, as the EU caves to pressure from Trump & Big Tech, campaigners in Brussels call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stand up for Europe and enforce our digital laws ✊#StandUpUrusla

standupursula - People vs. Big Tech STAND UP, URSULAFight for Europe - not for Trump and Big Tech Add your name now: demand the EU stand up to Trump and Big Tech - starting with breaking up

📣 Over 200,000 people have signed petitions demanding action. @wemoveeurope.bsky.social @avaaz.org

✍️ Add your voice now → StandUpUrsula.com #StandUpUrsula #EU #DataRights #GDPR

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros!

As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊

@eurosky.social's livestream on stream.place Eurosky Live from Berlin

We've kicked off #EuroskyLive in Berlin. Livestream the event here: stream.place/eurosky.soci...

Big news! 🎉 We're thrilled to welcome Ava as the new Executive Director of People vs Big Tech.

Her leadership marks an exciting new chapter for our movement.

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Big Tech survey results

Our poll found a large majority in France, Germany and Spain WANT the EU to be tough on Big Tech, even if it damages relations with Trump.

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu must not back down to lobby pressure. #BreakUpBigTech now! peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

Protesters outside Berlaymont urge EU to break-up Google | Euractiv NGOs call on the Commission to force Google to sell parts of its advertising technology business after it was fined €2.95 billion for violating EU competition rules

The Commission recently fined Google a massive €2.95 billion over abusive practices in adtech.

But the door is still open for tougher action to break up this monopoly once and for all. www.euractiv.com/news/protest...

Protestors in Brussels call for the EU to Break Up Google

👀Is that EU competition chief @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu taking a hammer to break up Google??

Today we're sending a loud message to @ec.europa.eu to dismantle Google's toxic advertising monopoly! #BreakUpBigTech. Great work @lobbyctrl-tech.bsky.social bsky.social @rebalance-now.bsky.social 👏👏👏

EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat Brussels hammers U.S. search giant after internal Commission feud.

Today's €2.95 bn fine against Google is a start, but is not enough. Big Tech shrugs off fines as just the cost of maintaining their toxic monopolies.

But good the door is still open for tougher remedies. The EU Commission MUST finish the job and break up Google. www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

Free our digital world from the stranglehold of Big Tech. Break up Google. #BreakUpBigTech

Our YouGov poll found people in France, Germany and Spain DON'T want the EU to back down against Big Tech and Trump! peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat Brussels hammers U.S. search giant after internal Commission feud.

Google's monopoly power rips off consumers, pollutes our information environment, and destroys the news media.

Today's €2.95 billion fine is a start, but won't touch Google's toxic ad-tech monopoly. The EU @ec.europa.eu must hold firm and now break up Google. www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

European project Eurosky aims to reduce reliance on US tech giants BERLIN (Reuters) -A group of European technology entrepreneurs has unveiled the Eurosky initiative, a project to create infrastructure for social media offerings and reduce reliance on U.S. tech giant...

The good news is that a new initiative called Eurosky, led by a group of European technology entrepreneurs, aims to reduce reliance on US tech giants. See more here: tech.yahoo.com/social-media...

NEW: Over half of social media users across France, Germany and Spain would prefer to use European-based platforms. Only 4-5% in those countries would prefer to use US based platforms.

Our YouGov polling shows definitively that Europeans want alternatives to the dominant US social media giants.

Can genAI start-ups really challenge #BigTech's dominance? 🧐

🔎 We analysed 12 start-ups' value chains and what we found is clear:

They're highly dependent on Big Tech companies, particularly Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nvidia.

Read our full analysis: www.somo.nl/the-real-win...

Big Tech poll infographic and survey results

🧵Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump.

New YouGov poll we commissioned @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

The results of the YouGov poll (commissioned by @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social and @wemoveeurope.bsky.social) are striking: almost two-thirds of European citizens want enforcement against Big Tech - even if it pisses Trump off.

🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't.

@ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech?

peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...