Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!

Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...

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ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

Google is its own worst enemy

In its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too

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Every story about how some professional organization submitted work full of AI hallucinations, shows how little the work output is actually vetted at these places.

EY retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations

Incident is latest example of professional services firm being led astray by new technology

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🎉 Neue Veröffentlichungen zu unserem Projekt #Digitalhaushalt (2025), in denen wir das Digitalbudget der Bundesregierung analysieren und politisch einordnen: 🎯 Policy Paper zu den Digitalausgaben agoradigital.de/wp-content/u... 🎯 Studie zum Digitalhaushalt 2025 agoradigital.de/wp-content/u...

Der Digitalhaushalt 2025: der große Schub? Die Gründung des Digitalministeriums sollte ein klares Signal setzen: Digitalisierung hat Priorität. Hinzu kommt: KI und digitale Souveränität sind große Themen. Und mit dem Sondervermögen hat die Bundesregierung zusätzliche Spielräume für Investitionen.

The Trump administration used tariff threats to pressure countries into gutting their own tech regulations. From Indonesia to Brazil, Big Tech's wish list became US trade policy, according to an investigation led by Agência Pública as part of the series The Invisible Hand of Big Tech.

How the United States Used Tariff Deals to Weaken Tech Regulation Around the World

At least ten countries signed off on deals or frameworks that benefit American tech companies in 2025, according to an investigation led by Agência Pública.

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We are now in the first wave of AI’s enshitification cycle. Claude’s flat fee billing for enterprises is switching to usage based amid widespread reports of the model being dumbed down. Everyone knew the subsidies wouldn’t last but this is ending faster than expected. At least wait until the IPO. 😬

NEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech” Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe. citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

EU Commission selling us out to #BigTech and #Trump

Maximilian Henning@maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 5mo ago

Brussels is in talks with Washington to set up some sort of tech “dialogue” – which could get a say over how EU tech and antitrust rules will get enforced against American companies, according to media reports. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

📢 Announcing the Open Social Awards ✨ Alongside PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab, we aim to honor the work of independent builders around the world, creating innovative products for the open web! More details below… newpublic.org/OSA

Open Social Awards | New_ Public

The awards aim to recognize and celebrate the breakthrough products of developers building on open protocols such as ATProtocol and ActivityPub.

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🎂 𝟮𝟬 𝗝𝗮𝗵𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 - 𝗪𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘀 𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲: agoradigital.de/zwanzig-jahr... Unsere Innovation Lead @vvnbnrt.bsky.social schreibt auf dem Agora Digitale Transformation Blog über die Entwicklung des sozialen Netzwerks und die Konsequenzen für die digitale Öffentlichkeit.

Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits

Japan’s new political party, Team Mirai, illustrates the viability of a different way to do politics, write Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier—one in which technology is used to make democratic processes stronger, instead of undermining them.

Japan's Team Mirai Uses Tech to Bolster Democracy, Not Undermine It

Team Mirai illustrates the viability of a different way to do politics, write Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier.

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Wir haben spannende Stellen zu #KI und #DigitalenMärkten ausgeschrieben. 👇

@agoradigital.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Wir stellen ein! Bewerbt euch bis zum 07.04.2026 als (Senior) Policy Fellow mit dem Schwerpunkt „KI und Public Interest Tech“ (m/w/d) oder (Senior) Policy Fellow mit dem Schwerpunkt „Digitale Technologie und Märkte“ (m/w/d) agora-digitale-transformation.jobs.personio.de

“For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, …for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year” Based on new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social data www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

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😳 Komplexes Zoll-Rückerstattungschaos in den USA in Zahlen: 👉 53 Mio. Einträge für Waren, die den inzwischen für ungültig erklärten Zöllen unterliegen (Angaben der Regierung). 👉 166 Mrd. Dollar, die die Regierung an „Not“-Zöllen eingenommen hat. 👉 650 Mio. Dollar pro Monat an Zinsen…

And @vestager.bsky.social takes the stage at #Rebuild. She's talking about digital infrastructure: "That's not a tech problem. That's a democratic problem." It's amazing to finally hear this said by someone with voice.

I think about this problem a lot. Even when Trump is gone, it’ll be impossible to undo the institutional damage he’s done from mass firing Black women from government jobs to having his allies own CBS/CNN/TikTok/etc to turning ICE into a Gestapo without the same kind of authoritarian moves he made

Die starken Forderungen aus Gesellschaft und Politik nach Altersgrenzen für Social Media heißen doch im Umkehrschluss dass der Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag und dessen Umsetzung komplett gescheitert ist, oder? Übersehe ich da was?

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch

The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...

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Der neue Medienstaatsvertrag in D schreibt ARD, @zdfde.bsky.social & Co "zielgruppengerechte interaktive Kommunikation mit den Nutzern […] sowie verstetigte Möglichkeiten der Partizipation“ vor. Eine Studie von @agoradigital.bsky.social liefert dazu Impulse: agoradigital.de/wp-content/u... 1/3

Angenommen, die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen nähmen ihren Auftrag im Internet gnadenlos ernst - ohne Pfadabhängigkeit und "Aber die Tagesschau!": Wie sähe das aus? Seit gestern macht 1 Studie der @agoradigital.bsky.social 1 paar Vorschläge - auch für den Weg dorthin. 🧵👇

So the President of the United States of America is posting to his personal social media network blatantly fake news videos that I'm pretty sure are AI generated slop. This one is supposedly about Gavin Newsom panicking that Walmart is pulling out of California (it's not).

In UK wird #Palantir hochkant rausgeworfen, da sie die Regierungen von Israel und USA bei illegaler Massenüberwachung, Deportation und Tötung unterstützen ❤️❤️❤️ "...is telling defence surveillance corporation Palantir to “pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS” www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir

Zack Polanski is telling defence surveillance corporation Palantir to 'pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS'.

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Fühlt es sich so an wirkungsorientiert zu arbeiten? Keine Panik! Unsere Data Scientist @vvnbnrt.bsky.social hat ein Poster veröffentlicht, das zeigt, wie Digitalpolitik mit messbaren Zielen und Indikatoren wirksamer werden kann. 👉Poster-Download: agoradigital.de/wp-content/u...

a woman is looking at a chalkboard with mathematical equations on it .

ALT: a woman is looking at a chalkboard with mathematical equations on it .

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Good moment to share again as EU is considering its options to counter US economic coercion campaigb for Greenland. Let‘s start with taxing adtech really hard.

Stefan Heumann@4change.bsky.social · 8mo ago

While the US government is escalating its campaign against EU tech regulation - just a reminder. It's the EU that is being taken advantage off. 120 Billion revenue for #Google #Meta #Amazon only in digitale advertising in Europe. And hardly paying any taxes on it.

Google has filed its $32bn acquisition of Wiz for EU clearance. The deal risks killing multi-cloud security and deepening lock-in, testing whether EU competition policy is willing to act, write Hilary Jennings, Claire Lavin, Çağrı Çavuş and Aline Blankertz.

Google’s Wiz Deal Could Become a Trojan Horse in Europe’s Cloud | TechPolicy.Press

Google’s Wiz bid will test whether European competition policy is finally willing to confront the expanding power of Big Tech companies.

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The @ec.europa.eu will soon present “a combination of funding and policy measures” to support European open source projects in becoming commercially viable alternatives to proprietary US tech. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Commission wants to commercialise open source for sovereignty | Euractiv

An incoming strategy looks set to target support at European open source projects to scale into commercial alternatives to US tech

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Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

Things are going great on The Everything App with MechaHitler in charge.

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 8mo ago

lmao jfc