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Who owns the internet? The true story behind the power of Big Tech

Today seven companies rule the internet: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Alibaba, Microsoft and Tencent. Their CEOs say their power is due to their unique ideas and hard work, but hide the truth about the money that allowed them to become so big and the way they have rigged the system to maintain their power. Nick Buxton from the Transnational Institute presents five reasons why Big Tech became so powerful.

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Read more in our State of Power report 2023 on Digital Power.

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