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Margarida Silva

Margarida Silva is a researcher at the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO). There she investigates the economic and political power of Big Tech and its impacts.

Amazon: call to ban its lobbyists backed

Bram Vranken, Oliver Roethig, Margarida Silva and Max Bank

Support is mobilised behind the demand by MEPs that Amazon’s lobbyists be barred from the European Parliament.

Facebook Files and ePrivacy lobbying expose the power of Big Tech

Margarida Silva

As MEPs host the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen this afternoon, they need to step up their challenge to the surveillance capitalists.

How Big Tech money skews the European playing-field

Margarida Silva and Max Bank

Record spending by technology companies lobbying the EU represents a democratic problem.