Goodbye, Big Tech? People are dropping belief in social media platforms, economist tells Boom Bust

Goodbye, Big Tech? People are dropping belief in social media platforms, economist tells Boom Bust
Goodbye, Big Tech? People are losing trust in social media platforms, economist tells Boom Bust
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Author: Russia Today

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Russia Today has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Big Techs influence over government has only grown between the last two election cycles. Facebook and Amazon now outspend the largest tobacco and oil giants when it comes to buying political favor, a new report states". (March 25, 2021)
  2. "Facebook has made Nicolas Maduros social media account read only for 30 days, after the Venezuelan president allegedly used the platform to promote a treatment he said could help deal with the coronavirus". (March 27, 2021)
  3. "Pandemic profiteers: Big Pharma & Big Tech cash in on Covid-19". (December 15, 2020)
  4. "Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pledged to spearhead a global campaign against internet censorship, insisting platforms cannot act as a Spanish Inquisition or stifle free speech using safety as a pretext". (January 15, 2021)
  5. "The Uganda Communications Commission has apparently decided to block all social media platforms until further notice as the country prepares to take to the polls on Thursday". (January 12, 2021)
  6. "A new UK regulator tasked with keeping an eye on tech giants has begun operations, and its first assignment is to draft a code of conduct aimed at improving interactions between platforms and news publishers". (April 7, 2021)
  7. "As concerns rise about the clout of the likes of Google and Facebook, more and more states are increasing pressure on tech giants. RTs Boom Bust breaks down how governments are trying to bring the sector under control". (January 26, 2021)
  8. "Twitter is rapidly changing from an independent platform into a tool of Western countries to impose a dictatorship over the internet. That's according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, following a recent ban of Russian accounts". (February 26, 2021)
  9. "Journalists, academics and even a Google executive have joined in to attack the independent publishing platform Substack, as the battle over harassment of a New York Times reporter quickly escalated into a censorship war". (March 11, 2021)
  10. "Donald Trump Jr. has switched to Telegram as his primary social media, as he expects it to protect him from being silenced by the US tech giants in the same way they treated his father, former President Trump". (January 23, 2021)
  11. "Social media app Parler is back online after being booted off the servers of Amazon Web Services last month in the wake of the Capitol riots, after it was accused of allowing threats of violence to be shared on the platform". (February 15, 2021)
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