Thousands of lobbying actions, bills and lawsuits
Technology companies are not a secret in which governments are trying to influence public policy, but this project brought together reporters from around the world to compare notes about the tactics and speech points of the major technology.
This data set maps the 2,977 lobbying action between 2012 and 2025, and includes everything from meetings with the heads of state to digital content arrangement to negotiation and presentation of small gifts; 801 More than 315 cases including invoices and technology companies, governments, businesses or citizens.
Review the following numbers for a comparative instant image that shows some methods used by companies such as meta, alphabet, amazon, microsoft, apple, tiktok and others to change political agendas and reshape the rules.
Big Tech’s invisible hand A collaborative journalism investigation directed by the Brazilian news organization Agência pública And Centro Latinoamericano de researcher periodística (Clip)with Crirase (Australia), CUESTİóN PúBlica (Colombia), Daily Maverick (South Africa), Al -diario ar (Argentina), Alti (Paraguay), Facultum (El Salvador), ICL (Brazil), Researcher Journalism Foundation – IJF (Canada), Lab (Chile), Lighthouse reports (International), N+focus (Mexican), Núcleo (Brazil), Premiums (Ecuador), Technology Policy Press (USA) and Tempo (Indonesia). Unlimited reporters And law team Hand Veinte supported the project and La Fábrica Meméicica Designed a visual identity.
Description: News Media as part of the bargaining code, Private Media (Cikey’s parent company) received funds from the middle of 2021 from Meta and Google. Meta terminated its agreements with all publishers in 2024. Private media continues to receive funds from Google as part of the code.
