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Support Global Voices’ Spotlight: Big Tech and Authoritarianism

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Briefings

Global Voices reports that Big Tech corporations are intrinsically linked to authoritarian states due to their disproportionate power over governments and individual lives. The article aims to highlight cases of technological authoritarianism and resistance worldwide, though it explicitly states it does not provide causal claims or specific causal mechanisms. The report was published in September 2026 and focuses on the intersection of digital connectivity, wealth concentration, and state power dynamics.

Key points

• Big Tech corporations are described as having 'disproportionate power and influence over governments as well as over the lives, attention, and finances of individual people' due to their multinational scale and entanglement in basic services.
• The article aims to 'pull back the camouflage that Big Tech uses to obscure their connection with oppressive governments' by highlighting cases of technological authoritarianism and resistance around the world.

Context and limitations

The report covers the intersection of digital connectivity, wealth concentration, and state power dynamics but does not provide causal mechanisms or specific causal claims linking these factors.

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