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Nov 11, 2022 • 8 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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#ElonMusk’s takeover of #Twitter has made many reflect on:

➡️Concentration of social & political power with super-rich
➡️Shocking treatment of its workforce
➡️Threats to content moderation
➡️Undermining of democracy
➡️Pandering to far right forces

bit.ly/3Uv7ISQ Elon Musk by creator James ...
2/8
#Twitter’s track record was already bad to begin with:

🚩Fines for selling users’ data
🚩Breaching EU data laws
🚩Algorithm has amplified hate speech

And all to sustain its business model based on surveillance advertising

nytimes.com/2022/11/04/opi… Image
3/8
What about #Twitter’s EU lobby footprint? Since it joined EU lobby register in 2014, #LobbyFacts’ archive shows Twitter has boosted its yearly spending declaration at least six fold to €300,000-399,999

lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/twitt… Image
4/8
#Twitter has been a regular visitor to Commission’s Berlaymont building for 51 high level meetings since 2014 & likely many more at lower levels.

Topics include “disinformation” & the EU Digital Services Act.

Twitter often meets alongside Meta/ Facebook, Google etc Image
5/8
#LobbyFacts also reveals that #Twitter has had multiple EU lobby intermediaries:

🇪🇸 Law firm
🇪🇺 Lobby firms: Hanover Comms, Hill&Knowlton + NOVE
🇺🇸 Lobby firm Albright Stonebridge

Twitter is also member of DOT Europe which lobbies for #BigTech

lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/dot-e… Image
6/8
Like many other #BigTech platforms, #Twitter reports that it runs its EU lobbying out of Ireland ... thereby benefitting from preferential tax rates for Silicon Valley corporations

thecurrency.news/articles/29570… Image
7/8
Check out #Twitter’s other lobby declarations:

🇮🇪 lobbying.ie

🇫🇷 hatvp.fr/fiche-organisa…

🇩🇪 lobbyregister.bundestag.de

🇺🇸 opensecrets.org/federal-lobbyi… Image
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#Tesla also active at EU level, reporting €300,000+ annual lobby spend, x15 increase since 2015. It also uses lobby intermediaries...

If you want EU lobbying low-down on any of #ElonMusk’s companies or another EU lobbyist, check out LobbyFacts: lobbyfacts.eu Image

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🚨This week, MEPs vote on von der Leyen's 2nd term as 🇪🇺 Commission President. What does she stand for?

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Nov 17, 2023
🚨NEW

The AI Act is at risk of being derailed by a last-minute Big Tech lobbying offensive, our research shows.

✋Fundamental rights are at risk of being sacrificed for the sake of corporate profits.

Read the publication here 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2023/11/byt…
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🤝In May Google’s CEO even managed to have meetings with three Commissioners in just one day.

👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2023/11/byt…

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We’re very happy to have had the possibility of hearing Dr. Michael Antoniou, Reader in Molecular Genetics at @KingsCollegeLon about new GMOs and issue related to the push for deregulation in the EU and elsewhere 🧵1
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As #PFAS consultation ends on Monday, check out our research on the industry, its lobby allies & strategies to weaken EU’s proposed restriction on #ForeverChemicals

Time to #BanPFAS to stop environmental pollution & the growing human health costs.

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#PFAS are everywhere and burden of dealing with human health & environmental consequences are to be counted in billions at EU level.

Globally it could be trillions.

125 NGOs demand to #BanPFAS in consumer products by 2025 & a complete ban by 2030.

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🚨 Read our new report on #hydrogen 🚨

🔴 It shows how it is being used as a Trojan horse to prolong the use of #FossilFuels

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