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  • 20:41, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Larry Page (Created page with "* Although Larry Page stepped down from his day-to-day responsibilities at Alphabet Inc. in 2019, he remained on the board, and, with his co-founder Sergey Brin, remain the controlling shareholders at Alphabet with over 51 percent of the total shareholder voting power. ** Page was the single shareholder with the most voting power at Alphabet, having 1.3 percentage points more voting power than his co-founder, Sergey Brin. ** Page and Brin owned only 11.4 percent of Alpha...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:39, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Kent Walker (Created page with "* Walker, who has worked at Google since 2006 and is now Chief Legal Counsel and VP of Global Affairs, has consolidated power at the company and now oversees a broad portfolio handling virtually every controversial issue. He has been described as risk-averse and preferring to shun the spotlight. * Walker has spent years defending Google’s monopoly in the U.S. and European Union, arguing that Google increases competition, not stifles it. He has said that the DOJ’s law...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:38, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Google and Koch Connections (Created page with "* Google and Koch entities, mainly the Charles Koch Foundation, fund many of the same institutions. ** In 2020, Google listed itself as being a member of 28 different policy organizations that have also received Koch funding. ** Many of these mutually funded institutions, including the Buckeye Institute, the Federalist Society, and Taxpayers Protection Alliance, have taken far-right stances. ** Google has also previously listed itself as a member of 13 different policy...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:37, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Biden Administration Ties (Created page with "* Alphabet was a client of Deputy Counsel to the President and Legal Advisor to the National Security Council Jonathan Cedarbaum when he was a partner at the law firm of WilliamHale. ** Cedarbaum represented Google in Google Inc V. USA. This was a federal anti-trust case that upheld Google must pay $22.5 million in damages for planting tracking cookies on Apple’s Safari browser. * At least eight Biden administration officials own between $1,001-$50,000 in Alphabet stoc...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:36, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Google Disinformation (Created page with " '''YouTube spreads disinformation''' * YouTube’s algorithm put equal weight on climate science videos and climate denial videos and continued to serve up new climate misinformation to those who viewed similar content. Though Google took steps in October 2021 to demonetize climate denial YouTube videos, it still allowed climate denial content if it was presented as “public discourse.” * YouTube hosted thousands of videos that pushed vaccine misinformation, one of...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:35, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Google and the Auto Industry (Created page with "* Google had the most investment in autonomous vehicles of any Big Tech company. * VSI Labs said “no company has more in the game  than Google (Waymo) with massive fleets, deployments, investments and software expertise.” * Google’s Android operating system was widespread in cars, with a Berylls analysis showing that within a few years of 2020, Google’s  smartphone mirroring extended to some 80% of global car sales. * Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:35, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Google and National Security (Created page with "* In December 2020, it was reported that Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt made personnel recommendations for the Defense and State Departments. '''Google and China''' * Google executives wanted a relationship and further cooperation with China, saying it was a “wonderful, innovative market.” Google Sundar Pichai said Google needed to “think hard” about whether it would continue to work in China and look at the “long term.” Jeff Dean, head of Google AI, ho...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:33, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Google and Taxes (Created page with "* In 2017, Google Moved $22.7 Billion Through A Dutch Shell Company In Bermuda, Where Companies Pay No Income Tax, To Reduce Its Foreign Tax Bill. ** The Tax Strategy Was Phased Out Beginning In 2014 In Response To Pressure From The EU And The United States, Two Regions That Were Cheated By This Tax Advantage, Ending Google’s Tax Advantages In 2020. * 2010 To 2019: Google Paid $27.9 Billion In Income Taxes On $176.6 Billion In Profits After Taking In $647.7 Billion I...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:15, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook and Taxes (Created page with "* Facebook Avoided Paying Taxes by Shifting the Rights to It Online Platform and Marketing Intangibles to Ireland, a Tax Haven used by other Big Tech Companies. * Facebook Faced Scrutiny For Underpaying Taxes By $3 To $5 Billion By Undervaluing The Worth Of Its Intellectual Property When Transferring It To Ireland. The Institute On Taxation And Economic Police Reported That Facebook “Led The Pack In Exploiting The Stock Option Loophole,” Which Allowed Companies To De...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:14, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook and National Security (Created page with "* 75% of social media usage was through Facebook or one of its subsidiary platforms. Facebook and its subsidiaries accounted for 75% of all time spent on social media, with roughly two billion people interacting with their platform every day. Facebook’s monopoly in the social media space meant it had the personal data of nearly 2.8 billion people, which was more than a quarter of the world’s population. Because of their dominance of social media Facebook captured 50%...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:13, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook and Disinformation (Created page with "* Laura Edelson Said Her And Her Team Used Their Research To study Facebook’s “apparent amplification of partisan misinformation.” Edelson and her team found that Facebook users engaged with misinformation more than other kinds of information on the platform. The team’s findings led Edelson to believe we were “racing against the clock” to understand how disinformation spread on social media. Edelson called understanding how misinformation spread on social med...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:11, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook and Mental Health (Created page with "*RESEARCH CONSISTENTLY FOUND THAT FACEBOOK AND SOCIAL MEDIA USERS REPORTED LOWER WELL-BEING **A large body of literature linked Facebook use with detrimental outcomes such as decreased mental well-being. A meta study on scientific papers on social media’s influence on mental health found social media use was linked to increased levels of psychological distress, thoughts of self-harm and suicide and poor sleep. One in eight Facebook users reported that their use of the...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:09, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Allowing Illegal Actions for Ads (Created page with "*Facebook did not take action against human trafficking groups that were on their platform despite being made aware of their presence. A Polish trafficking expert said that he had identified human trafficking on Facebook, but 18 months later there had been no implementation of systems to find and remove trafficking posts *Facebook in fact allowed the human traffickers to spend $152,000 on Facebook ads for massage parlors and deactivated a system that detected human traff...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:09, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Failures to Keep Children Safe (Created page with "*Instagram and Facebook have failed to keep children safe on their platforms, with high levels of child pornography and “grooming” of underage users. Facebook was responsible for the majority of reported instances of child pornography or trafficking in 2018, and Instagram was cited as the leading platform for child grooming in the U.K. in 2019. **During the COVID-19 pandemic, Instagram failed to respond to complaints about predatory behavior, citing a lack of resourc...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:08, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook and User Harm (Created page with " '''Allowing Illegal Actions for Ads''' * Facebook did not take action against human trafficking groups that were on their platform despite being made aware of their presence. A Polish trafficking expert said that he had identified human trafficking on Facebook, but 18 months later there had been no implementation of systems to find and remove trafficking posts * Facebook in fact allowed the human traffickers to spend $152,000 on Facebook ads for massage parlors and d...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:04, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook's False Claim To Supporting Regulation (Created page with "* For years, Facebook’s approach to looming regulatory policy in the U.S. and abroad involved denying any need for regulation at all. ** In 2017, Facebook lobbyists and its allied Internet Association warned that proposed BROWSER Act legislation requiring websites and ISPs to obtain consent from users before sharing their browser data with other entities threatened innovation. * In 2016, less than a month after a judge ruled against Facebook in a lawsuit alleging viola...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:03, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook's Government Influence (Created page with "* Senior Biden officials have provided consulting services to Facebook. Secretary of State Tony Blinken provided “advisory services” regarding how countries are responding to cyber-attacks. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar provided “legal services” to Facebook. * From 2018 to 2020 Jeffrey Zients, Coordinator of the White House’s response to Covid-19 and Counselor to the President, was a member of Facebook’s Board of Directors. ** Zients has made hundreds of t...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:02, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page NYU Study on Misinformation (Created page with "* In August 2021, Facebook blocked a team of researchers from NYU’s Ad observatory from accessing their site. The researchers launched a tool enabling users to share data about which political ads the users are shown and why those ads were targeted at them. * The researchers said they were working to “uncover systemic flaws in the Facebook ad library, to identify misinformation in political ads [...] and to study Facebook’s apparent amplification of partisan misin...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:01, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook and Whistleblowers (Created page with "* According to the Wall Street Journal, “Time and again, the documents show, in the U.S. and overseas, Facebook’s own researchers have identified the platform’s ill effects, in areas including teen mental health, political discourse and human trafficking. Time and again, despite congressional hearings, its own pledges and numerous media exposés, the company didn’t fix them. Sometimes the company held back for fear of hurting its business. In other cases, Faceboo...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:59, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Michael McConnell (Created page with "* Michael McConnell is a professor at Stanford Law School and a former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. He has published widely in the fields of constitutional law, specifically on the separation of church and state. He has had many positions at universities, government agencies, and law firms. * McConnell is a scholar on the separation of church and state, but he has often used his legal knowledge to fight against the separation of church and state. In 1996, Michael...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:55, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Evelyn Aswad (Created page with "* Evelyn Aswad is a law professor at the University Of Oklahoma, researching corporate responsibility and freedom of expression. Before becoming a professor, Aswad spent 14 years as an attorney with the U.S. Department of State, most recently as the director of the Office of Human Rights and Refugees. At the State Department, Aswad was a legal adviser for U.S. delegations in multiple forms. In her position at the University of Oklahoma, Aswad taught classes on Internatio...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:55, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page John Samples (Created page with "* Samples is a member of the Oversight Board and the vice president of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. He has authored several books and is currently working on a book about social media and speech regulation, updating his policy analysis on “why government should not regulate content moderation for social media.” Prior to joining the Cato Institute, Samples worked as director of the Georgetown University Free Press and Vice President of the Twentieth C...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:54, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Jamal Greene (Created page with "* Greene, a co-chair of the Oversight Board, is a constitutional law expert and professor of law at Columbia Law School. He recently published a book called “How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights is Tearing America Apart.” He is a frequent commentator on constitutional law and the Supreme Court, and has written pieces in the New York Times, Slate, the New York Daily News, and the Los Angeles Times. In 2019, he was a legal aide to then-Senator Kamala Ha...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:53, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook's Oversight Committee (Created page with "* Facebook’s Oversight Board Has Been Called Out As A “Toothless” PR Stunt That The Company Used To “[Co-Opt] Advocates And Academics Who Would Otherwise Be More Critical Of The Company.” In 2020, Facebook executives announced a new Oversight Board, which would be tasked with issuing recommendations on controversial content moderation decisions. Referred to by some as Facebook’s “Supreme Court,” the Oversight Board was intended to “help Facebook answer...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:52, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Suzanne Nossel (Created page with "* Suzanne Nossel is the CEO of PEN America, a nonprofit organization that works to defend free expression around the world. Nossel’s family escaped Nazi Germany and relocated to South Africa in the 1930s. She grew up in Scarsdale, New York. In high school, she advocated for the rights of Jewish people living in the Soviet Union. Nossel received her bachelor’s and JD from Harvard University. Nossel then started her career as an associate at McKinsey and worked for the...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:51, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Chris Cox (Created page with "* Cox Is A Close Lieutenant Of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg And Is One Of The Longest-Running Executives At The Company. Cox has been a Facebook employee since 2005, aside from a year’s leave in 2019, and was one of the company’s first employees. He was one of the first 15 software engineers and one of the first 50 employees at the company. * As chief product officer, Cox is considered one of the most important executives in the company and worked closely with Zucker...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:50, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Andrew "Boz" Bozworth (Created page with "* Andrew Bosworth joined Facebook as the head of the firm’s advertising division in 2006. Since then he has become a close confidant of Mark Zuckerberg and is a staunch defender of the Big Tech firm, despite numerous scandals. ** Just 6 days after the Pulse Nightclub massacre, Bosworth wrote a memo arguing that any harm–including terrorist attacks, cyberbullying, and data breaches–caused by Facebook was justified because it was in service of Facebook’s mission of...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:49, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Adam Mosseri (Created page with "* Mosseri was promoted to head of Instagram after the app’s founders left the company due to tension with Mark Zuckerberg regarding how much control Facebook exerted over Instagram. Mosseri was a long-time Zuckerberg loyalist and his move to Instagram was seen as part of Zuckerberg’s effort to consolidate control over the app. Mosseri seemed to align better with Zuckerberg’s vision of aggressive growth, even at the expense of ethical considerations. * Mosseri oppos...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:47, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Joel Kaplan (Created page with "* Kaplan, born in 1969, grew up in Weston, Massachusetts, a suburb 20 miles west of Boston. * Kaplan earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he dated Sheryl Sandberg. * After college, Kaplan joined the U.S. Marines Corp and served as an artillery officer. * Kaplan then graduated from Harvard Law School before clerking for a U.S. Court of Appeals judge and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. * Kaplan then began working for George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:45, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Sheryl Sandberg (Created page with "* After the January 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, Sandberg denied Facebook held responsibility for the attacks: “‘I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, don’t have our standards, and don’t have our transparency.” * Experts, however, found the Capitol attacks were organized on Facebook. One report found “Calls to 'occupy Congress' were rampant on Facebook in the weeks leading up to the dead...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:42, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook and Small Business (Created page with "* Facebook’s algorithm has arbitrarily prevented small businesses from advertising, resulting in lost revenue. While larger advertisers can pay for a dedicated account representative, smaller advertisers receive slower customer service. Additionally, Facebook changed its algorithm in 2018 to show users less commercial content, causing small businesses to lose revenue. * Facebook, Instagram, and Google’s YouTube have created arbitrary and discriminatory standards arou...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:41, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook Cryptocurrency Not Trusted by Lawmakers (Created page with "'''Democrats''' * In May 2019, Sen. Sherod Brown questioned how Facebook would protect the privacy of its cryptocurrency users. He also demanded clarity on Facebook’s intentions for its crypto project. * In June 2019, Sen. Brown said Facebook was “too big and too powerful” and said the company could not be allowed to run a risky new cryptocurrency without proper oversight. * In June 2019, Chair of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters called on Fac...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:34, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook Facing Pressure from Consumers, Regulators (Created page with " Democrats * Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said Big Data posed “serious implications for healthy competitive marketplaces” and called on antitrust agencies to “place greater emphasis on determining the competitive impact of obtaining even more data through mergers.” Klobuchar said Big Tech companies like Facebook were “powerful internet gatekeepers” that kept small businesses in check. * Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Facebook was a “monopoly” that was u...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:10, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook Operating as a Monopoly (Created page with "RECENT COURT DECISION AGAINST FTC DIDN’T DENY FACEBOOK WAS A MONOPOLY * Although a judge ruled against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in its antitrust case against Facebook, the judge’s ruling did not rule on whether Facebook was a monopoly and it allowed the FTC to retry its argument. * An analysis of the judge’s ruling by Brookings noted how the case underscored how current antitrust law provides carveouts for “lawful monopolies.” From Brookings, “The...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:08, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Apple and Taxes (Created page with "* Apple Avoided Taxes By Creating Three Offshore Corporations In Ireland, A Known Tax Haven. * Apple Used A “Cost-Sharing Agreement” With Its Irish Subsidiaries, Which Transferred Part Ownership Of Intellectual Property Created In The U.S. To Ireland To Avoid Paying Taxes In The U.S. * Apple Also Used A Tax Loophole Which Allowed them To Declare To The IRS That Its Three Offshore Subsidiaries Were One Company. * Forbes: Apple “Has Become Famous Over The Years For D...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:07, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Apple and China (Created page with "* Apple was said to be a “power tool in China’s vast censorship operation” going so far as to hand over its Chinese user’s personal data. The New York Times said Apple had worked to create “a bureaucracy that ha[d] become a powerful tool in China’s vast censorship operations.” Apple agreed to store the personal data of its Chinese customers on computer servers run by a state-owned Chinese firm. Apple’s compromises with the Chinese government made it “ne...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:06, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Apple and National Security (Created page with "* A majority of Americans owned an Apple product, with the average household owning at least two of them. * In 2017, it was found that 64% of Americans owned an Apple product, with the average household owning 2.6 Apple products. 52% of all smartphones used in the U.S. were iPhones.") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:04, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Apple and Workers (Created page with "* In 2019, Apple admitted to breaking Chinese labor law by employing too many temporary workers at the world’s largest iPhone factory. * Nonprofit advocacy group China Labor Watch accused Apple and Foxconn of labor violations, including withholding bonus payments, rolling back safety training, and employing more  temporary workers than China’s laws allowed, The Washington Post reported.") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:03, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Apple and the Auto Industry (Created page with "* Apple was already making serious auto industry in-roads and at a stroke has changed entire markets. * The Wall  Street Journal said Apple sought to “control every aspect of the user experience” and at a stroke changed entire  markets when it rolled out the iPhone and iTunes. * Apple’s mysterious plans could mean it was working on a car,  tech platform, or mobility service, but as of Spring 2021, Bloomberg reported Apple prioritized plans for the “Apple Car...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:02, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Apple and Privacy (Created page with " '''Apple failed to protect their users''' * Apple said the iPhone was a “highly personal device” and promised they had “design[ed] security into the core” of their platforms. Apple said safety and privacy was “of critical importance to users” and said they designed security into the core of its platforms. Apple claimed their devices protected their “entire ecosystem, including everything users do locally, on networks and with key internet services.” Ap...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:59, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Apple and the Biden Administration (Created page with "* One of Biden’s top advisors, Cynthia Hogan, worked as the top lobbyist for Apple, Inc. from 2016-2020. Hogan left her role as Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs at Apple, Inc. to join the Biden campaign and his vice presidential selection team. ** Hogan’s work for Apple, Inc. included lobbying the House, Senate, and Department of the Treasury for “corporate tax reform” in 2017, when the Republican corporate tax cuts were written. She contin...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:58, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Apple and Small Business (Created page with "* In 2018, Amazon and Apple struck a deal that led to the removal of repair shops selling refurbished Apple products on Amazon, harming “hundreds if not thousands” of small repairers. Apple made repair shops pay to become “authorized service providers” and has lobbied against right-to-repair legislation. * Apple controls 71% of spending in the U.S. app market while Google controls the rest, harming innovation and raising costs for consumers. Small app developers...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:58, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Apple and Consumers (Created page with "* To be in it’s App Store, Apple only allows payment through it’s own payment method and doesn’t allow developers to contact consumers, to tell them about lower prices or offer competitive pricing. This has led people to call them a monopoly in a classic sense. * The IPhone is vulnerable to hacks and the public has been misled about it’s security. * The App Store is also vulnerable to scam and ripoff apps. The review process has been called “feeble” and since...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:50, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Amazon and National Security (Created page with "* The cloud services space was dominated by Amazon, who had billions of dollars worth of contracts with federal defense agencies like the Department of Defense. Amazon held nearly 34% of the worldwide cloud computer market. Amazon was the dominant cloud provider for federal agencies, the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. The NSA awarded Amazon a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion. Even the CIA used Amazon’s cloud services. The c...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:49, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Amazon and Taxes (Created page with "* In 2020, Amazon Saved $639 Million Using Various Tax Credits * Amazon Gave Employees Restricted Stock Grants, Which Allowed It To Take Tax Deductions. * In 2020, Amazon Saved $1.8 Billion Using Tax Breaks For Stock Options. * From 2018 To 2020, Amazon Used Depreciation Breaks To Avoid Paying Taxes, Which Allowed It To Deduct The Costs Of Investments In Equipment More Quickly Than The Equipment Wore Out. * 2011 To 2016: Amazon Spent More Than $160 Billion On Investments...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:49, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Amazon and Workers (Created page with "* Throughout Amazon’s 27-Year Existence It Used “Hard-Nosed Tactics From A Well Worn Playbook” To Stop Union Drives Says the Washington Post: “Among other problems, unions could dent the company’s flexibility, limiting its ability to rapidly hire and cut workers to meet shopping demands that spike and recede throughout the year,” said former company executives who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about internal policy.") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:48, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Amazon and the Auto Industry (Created page with "* Amazon was already making in-roads in the auto industry and had the most to gain from AV deliveries. In June 2020, Amazon acquired Zoox for $1.2 billion to design autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. In December 2018, Zoox Inc. received the first California permit to transport vehicles in self-driving cars. * In October 2020, Amazon  unveiled its first all-electric van built by electric vehicle (EV) startup Rivian, with an expected 10,000 vans on roads as soon as 2022,...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:47, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Amazon's Government Influence (Created page with "* Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of White House Senior Counselor Steve Ricchetti was paid $150,000 to be a lobbyist for Amazon to lobby Congress on online marketing regulations and the minimum wage. ** White House Counsel has developed a framework so that Steve Ricchetti can still work on legislation while his brother’s firm continues to be active. * Jaime Gorelick who is on Amazon’s Board of Directors was also on the Board of Trustees of the Urban Institute when Specia...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:46, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Amazon and Small Business (Created page with "* Amazon’s monopoly has allowed it to raise fees on third-party sellers by 11% from 2015 to 2020. Additionally, Amazon uses data from its third-party sellers to launch competing products and undercut the work of small businesses. Third-party sellers have reported that Amazon can arbitrarily suspend their accounts, leading to a “death knell.” Because of this, some third-party sellers fear retaliation from Amazon. * In 2018, Amazon and Apple struck a deal that led to...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:46, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Amazon and Consumers (Created page with " '''Self-preferencing as a harm to consumers''' * European Governments Crack Down On Self-Preferencing Behavior From Big Tech * The Italian government fined Amazon $1.3 billion for breaking antitrust law by self- preferencing – incentivizing third-party merchants to use it proprietary fulfillment system. ** In addition to the fine, Italian regulators ordered Amazon to offer third-party merchants the same sales and visibility opportunities as merchants using its fulf...") Tag: Visual edit
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