'The Big Tech Threat to Democracy: challenging the oligarchy from Musk to Meta'

Event Date: 20th February 2025
Location: Internet, 6pm GMT

Palantir is the secretive US spy tech company that the government has contracted to organise NHS data and it has just deepened its connections with Elon Musk. Palantir’s stocks have surged in value after announcing the integration of Musk’s xAI chatbot ‘Grok’ into its user platforms. This is a dangerous development for all of us, with our health data at the hands of unaccountable monopoly corporations openly allied with the far right.

Join us online on Thursday 20 February at 6pm UK time for our event ‘The Big Tech Threat to Democracy: challenging the oligarchy from Musk to Meta’ to discuss how we can take back control from these brazen and dangerous billionaires.

We’ll be joined by speakers from Corporate Europe Observatory, who formed part of the Make Amazon Pay coalition that successfully banned Amazon lobbyists from the EU parliament, and the European Trade Union Confederation. Together, we’ll learn how Big Tech influences the EU and UK, how movements have successfully fought back, and what we can do now to retake power from multinational corporations.

When: Thursday 20 February 2025, 6pm UK time / 19.00 CET
Where: Online via zoom

Speakers:

Bram Vanken is a researcher and campaigner specialising in Big Tech and economic and social justice at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), a campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy making. CEO recently produced the report Bias baked in: How Big Tech sets its own AI standards and worked within the ‘Make Amazon Pay’ coalition to end the presence of Amazon lobbyists in the EU parliament.

Isabelle Schömann is Deputy General Secretary at the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). Isabelle will discuss ways Big Tech undermines workers’ rights and how the labour movement can mobilise transnationally to successfully challenge the power of multinational corporations.

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