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- Internet Health Report
- Freedom from Facebook
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- switching.social
- Libre Projects
- "Report on Competition Policy", annual report from European Commission.
- Juozas Kaziukėnas & Sally Hubbard: "Amazon Is a Monopoly, an Interview With Sally Hubbard", Marketplace Pulse, 6 August 2019.
- Chris Hughes: "It’s Time to Break Up Facebook", New York Times, 9 May 2019.
- Cory Doctorow: "It's monopolies, not surveillance", re:publica, 7 May 2019.
- Kashmir Hill: "I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell", Gizmodo, 7 February 2019.
- Natasha Lomas: "German antitrust office limits Facebook’s data gathering", TechCrunch, 7 February 2019.
- Mike Isaac: "Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger", New York Times, 25 January 2019.
- Shoshana Zuboff: "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power", PublicAffairs, 15 January 2019.
- Nick Routley: "The 20 Internet Giants That Rule the Web (1998-Today)", Visual Capitalist, 5 January 2019.
- Paris Martineau & Louise Matsakis: "Why It's Hard to Escape Amazon's Long Reach", Wired, 23 December 2018.
- Daniel Oberhaus: "How I Quit Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon", Vice Motherboard, 13 December 2018.
- Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer, Michael H. Keller & Aaron Krolik: "Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret", New York Times, 10 December 2018.
- Martin Herzog & Marko Rösseler: "Allmacht Amazon" (German), WDR, 5 December 2018.
- Christina Farr: "I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier — and that's a big problem for social media companies", CNBC, 1 December 2018.
- "Most Americans aren't aware that Facebook owns WhatsApp, or that Google owns Waze", DuckDuckGo, 16 October 2018.
- Nilay Patel: "It’s time to break up Facebook", The Verge, 4 September 2018.
- Erik Rood: "Interconnectedness of companies through shared board members", Data Interview Questions, July 2018.
- Mitch Stoltz, Corynne McSherry, Cindy Cohn & Danny O'Brien: "Competition, Civil Liberties, and the Internet Giants", Electronic Frontier Foundation, 27 June 2018.
- Jon Brodkin: "What to expect now that AT&T officially owns Time Warner", Ars Technica, 15 June 2018.
- Steve Kroft: "How did Google get so big?", CBS News, 21 May 2018.
- Robert Reich: "The Monopolization of America: The Biggest Economic Problem You’re Hearing Almost Nothing About", Inequality Media, 6 May 2018.
- Katharina Nocun: "Die Daten, die ich rief – Wie wir unsere Freiheit an Großkonzerne verkaufen" (German), Bastei Lübbe, 27 April 2018.
- "Social media giants Facebook, Tencent, Google reign", Mozilla Internet Health Report, April 2018.
- Stacy Mitchell: "Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market", The Nation, 15 February 2018.
- "Corporate Consolidation", Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, 24 September 2017.
- Nick Srnicek: "We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why", The Guardian, 30 August 2017.
- Hannah Jane Parkinson: "Wake up! Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook are running our lives", The Guardian, 12 May 2017.
- Farhad Manjoo: "Which Tech Giant Would You Drop?" New York Times, 10 May 2017.
- Jonathan Taplin: "Move Fast and Break Things – How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy", 18 April 2017.
- Lina M. Khan: "Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox", Yale Law Journal, January 2017.
- Nick Srnicek: "Platform Capitalism", Polity, November 2016.
- Chen Xinlei: "China's digital monopolies are killing competition", Business Insider, 18 August 2015.
- Philip Bump: "From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996", Washington Post, 15 December 2014.
- "Internet monopolies: Everybody wants to rule the world", The Economist, 27 November 2014.
- Sam Schechner: "Europe Targets U.S. Web Firms – French, German Officials Call for Greater Power to Regulate Internet Companies", Wall Street Journal, 27 November 2014.
- Frank Pasquale: "Privacy, Antitrust, and Power", 20 George Mason Law Review 1009, 2013.
- Paul Sawers: "Facebook, Twitter, iTunes and Google: The rise of digital monopolies", The Next Web, 2 October 2011.