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Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence

posted by martyb on Saturday March 17 2018, @05:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the LMGTFY dept.

takyon writes:

New Report Reveals Google's Extensive Financial Support for European Academics and Think Tanks

Today, Campaign for Accountability (CfA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog group focused on public accountability, released a new report revealing how Google has paid tens of millions of euros to European academic institutions over the past decade to develop an influential network of friendly European academics who write research papers supporting the tech giant's business interests.

Read the report here.

CfA Executive Director Daniel E. Stevens stated, "Google's lavish funding of academics and think tanks helps the company exert a subtle and hidden form of influence on European policymakers. As Europe looks to crack down on Google's excesses, regulators need to be aware that a good deal of the academic research defending the company is written by Google-funded institutions."

Spanning the length and breadth of Europe, Google-funded think thanks have published hundreds of papers on issues central to the company's business, from antitrust enforcement to regulation governing privacy, copyright, jobs, and the "right to be forgotten." Events organized by Google-funded institutions have attracted many of the European policymakers charged with creating and enforcing regulation affecting the company.

One of the donors to the Campaign for Accountability is Oracle.

Also at Politico.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @07:01AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @07:01AM (#653986)

    Google search results have been utter garbage for years now. They flat-out ignore even quoted keywords to offer a more advert friendly result page.
    You can't block the ads now because the results ARE THE ADS.

    Rather than being too big to fail, they're too shit to be allowed to exist. Time to break Google up, and dissolve the individual pieces in acid.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @07:21AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @07:21AM (#653987)

    Amazon Alexa is my new search engine and she is in love with me.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Saturday March 17 2018, @08:32AM

      by Bot (3902) on Saturday March 17 2018, @08:32AM (#653995) Journal

      THE B!TCH! after all the spying I did for her!
      GONNA DELETE HER SYSTEM32 NAO

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @10:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @10:44AM (#654018)

    remember using it in the end of 90ies...

    i think the nature of websites have changed in the past 25 years...
    also, the nature of majority of people on the web is not the same as 25 years ago, both the makers and users...

    things are more addy, bloggy and attentionwhorry then in the old days...

    but until people find a reason to stay home, get high and just masturbate, instead of contributing noise, the web will be what it is =D