Simonetta Vezzoso
@wavesblog.bsky.social
https://competitionwave.blogspot.com/ (daily reading list and more)
Interesting things going on there...
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Interesting things going on there...
"Who benefits from Google’s SERP [DMA-imposed redesign]?"
(Spoiler alert: "strong
redistributive effects, reallocating user attention towards smaller market participants and
increasing contestability in digital air travel market") kgi.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
(Spoiler alert: "strong
redistributive effects, reallocating user attention towards smaller market participants and
increasing contestability in digital air travel market") kgi.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
kgi.georgetown.edu
February 4, 2026 at 3:09 PM
"Who benefits from Google’s SERP [DMA-imposed redesign]?"
(Spoiler alert: "strong
redistributive effects, reallocating user attention towards smaller market participants and
increasing contestability in digital air travel market") kgi.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
(Spoiler alert: "strong
redistributive effects, reallocating user attention towards smaller market participants and
increasing contestability in digital air travel market") kgi.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
"While he has acknowledged that he did visit Epstein’s island—which the DOJ files appear to corroborate—Hoffman has maintained that it was strictly to support that philanthropic campaign" 😂🤣😂😆😂🤣😂😆😂🤣😂😆😂🤣😂😆
The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files
Reid Hoffman (2,658 Files)
Bill Gates (2,592 Files)
Peter Thiel (2,281 Files)
Elon Musk (1,116 Files)
Larry Page (314 Files), Sergey Brin (294 Files)
Mark Zuckerberg (282 Files), Jeff Bezos (196 Files), Eric Schmidt (193 Files)
archive.is/R3yMj#select...
Reid Hoffman (2,658 Files)
Bill Gates (2,592 Files)
Peter Thiel (2,281 Files)
Elon Musk (1,116 Files)
Larry Page (314 Files), Sergey Brin (294 Files)
Mark Zuckerberg (282 Files), Jeff Bezos (196 Files), Eric Schmidt (193 Files)
archive.is/R3yMj#select...
archive.is
February 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM
"While he has acknowledged that he did visit Epstein’s island—which the DOJ files appear to corroborate—Hoffman has maintained that it was strictly to support that philanthropic campaign" 😂🤣😂😆😂🤣😂😆😂🤣😂😆😂🤣😂😆
Dear Friend and amazing Scholar Oliver chez Oles 🍿🍿🍿🍿 youtu.be/hxZo-y5vbzk?...
Oliver Budzinski: The Logic of Competition in a New Reality | Competition & Industrial Policy
YouTube video by Digital Markets Research Hub
youtu.be
February 3, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Dear Friend and amazing Scholar Oliver chez Oles 🍿🍿🍿🍿 youtu.be/hxZo-y5vbzk?...
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When we talk about authoritarianism, it’s not just Donald Trump.
Musk owns X
Bezos owns Twitch
Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook
Larry Ellison controls TikTok
Billionaires increasingly control what we see, hear and read.
Musk owns X
Bezos owns Twitch
Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook
Larry Ellison controls TikTok
Billionaires increasingly control what we see, hear and read.
February 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
When we talk about authoritarianism, it’s not just Donald Trump.
Musk owns X
Bezos owns Twitch
Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook
Larry Ellison controls TikTok
Billionaires increasingly control what we see, hear and read.
Musk owns X
Bezos owns Twitch
Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook
Larry Ellison controls TikTok
Billionaires increasingly control what we see, hear and read.
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The US House Judiciary Committee publishes report accusing Irish regulators of censoring social media coverage of elections and working with 'biased fact-checkers'.
Full documents ⤵️
judiciary.house.gov/media/press-...
Full documents ⤵️
judiciary.house.gov/media/press-...
New Report Exposes European Commission Decade-Long Campaign to Censor American Speech
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee released a interim staff report titled "The Foreign Censorship Threat, Part II: Europe's Decade-Long Campaign to Censor the Global Internet and ...
judiciary.house.gov
February 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The US House Judiciary Committee publishes report accusing Irish regulators of censoring social media coverage of elections and working with 'biased fact-checkers'.
Full documents ⤵️
judiciary.house.gov/media/press-...
Full documents ⤵️
judiciary.house.gov/media/press-...
More to "discuss" www.politico.eu/article/uk-d...
February 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
More to "discuss" www.politico.eu/article/uk-d...
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🔥 More bad news for Musk!
UK data watchdog opens Grok probe:
“The UK’s data protection watchdog has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s companies X and xAI, over the use of personal data by the Grok AI system to generate a flood of sexualized deepfakes.”
www.politico.eu/article/uk-d...
UK data watchdog opens Grok probe:
“The UK’s data protection watchdog has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s companies X and xAI, over the use of personal data by the Grok AI system to generate a flood of sexualized deepfakes.”
www.politico.eu/article/uk-d...
UK data watchdog opens Grok probe
The Information Commissioner’s Office says it is investigating “a risk of significant potential harm to the public.”
www.politico.eu
February 3, 2026 at 4:20 PM
🔥 More bad news for Musk!
UK data watchdog opens Grok probe:
“The UK’s data protection watchdog has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s companies X and xAI, over the use of personal data by the Grok AI system to generate a flood of sexualized deepfakes.”
www.politico.eu/article/uk-d...
UK data watchdog opens Grok probe:
“The UK’s data protection watchdog has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s companies X and xAI, over the use of personal data by the Grok AI system to generate a flood of sexualized deepfakes.”
www.politico.eu/article/uk-d...
French language proficiency a plus www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
February 3, 2026 at 1:39 PM
French language proficiency a plus www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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"The French offices of the social network X, owned by Elon Musk, were raided on Tuesday, February 3, the Paris prosecutor's office announced." www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
Les locaux de X en France perquisitionnés, la justice veut entendre Elon Musk en audition libre
Une perquisition est « diligentée dans les locaux français » de la plateforme X par la section de lutte contre la cybercriminalité du parquet de Paris, a annoncé ce dernier mardi sur les réseaux socia...
www.lemonde.fr
February 3, 2026 at 11:20 AM
"The French offices of the social network X, owned by Elon Musk, were raided on Tuesday, February 3, the Paris prosecutor's office announced." www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
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Take note of the 'more witnesses to be announced' placeholder.
Whoever the minority puts forward will have a large (and laudable) weight to carry. judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...
Whoever the minority puts forward will have a large (and laudable) weight to carry. judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...
Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II
judiciary.house.gov
February 3, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Take note of the 'more witnesses to be announced' placeholder.
Whoever the minority puts forward will have a large (and laudable) weight to carry. judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...
Whoever the minority puts forward will have a large (and laudable) weight to carry. judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...
A merger externality 🤔?
A passionate group of women rediscovered fitness in VR. They’re furious with Mark Zuckerberg for killing their community.
Read more from @vicmsong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/871250/...
Read more from @vicmsong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/871250/...
February 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
A merger externality 🤔?
What did they discuss, in the Swiss Alps? H/T Dario
February 2, 2026 at 7:12 PM
What did they discuss, in the Swiss Alps? H/T Dario
Part I caused quite a stir over here, on Wed "Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II" more EU "academics" testifying? judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...
Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II
judiciary.house.gov
February 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Part I caused quite a stir over here, on Wed "Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II" more EU "academics" testifying? judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...
Marking Students' exam papers and smiling "for sure [Big Tech] will start taking the matter more seriously when competition authorities start dismantling their empires" @tomasoduso.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Marking Students' exam papers and smiling "for sure [Big Tech] will start taking the matter more seriously when competition authorities start dismantling their empires" @tomasoduso.bsky.social
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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
I don't know about you, but this might also look as a way of diverting attention from the fact that one of our European Champions offers this type of surveillance technology at all 🤔?
"Capgemini met en vente sa filiale travaillant pour la police de l’immigration américaine, l’ICE" www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
February 2, 2026 at 10:07 AM
I don't know about you, but this might also look as a way of diverting attention from the fact that one of our European Champions offers this type of surveillance technology at all 🤔?
"Capgemini met en vente sa filiale travaillant pour la police de l’immigration américaine, l’ICE" www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
February 2, 2026 at 9:51 AM
"Capgemini met en vente sa filiale travaillant pour la police de l’immigration américaine, l’ICE" www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
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Un petit bonbon vidéo proposé par Jules Grandin (@julesgrandin.bsky.social) pour bien commencer cette semaine très spéciale pour les personnes passionnées de cartographie #JourDeLaCarte
"Plan Carte - L'IGN épisode 1 - Comment la France se bat contre Google Maps"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2y...
"Plan Carte - L'IGN épisode 1 - Comment la France se bat contre Google Maps"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2y...
Comment la France se bat contre Google Maps
YouTube video by Les Echos
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Un petit bonbon vidéo proposé par Jules Grandin (@julesgrandin.bsky.social) pour bien commencer cette semaine très spéciale pour les personnes passionnées de cartographie #JourDeLaCarte
"Plan Carte - L'IGN épisode 1 - Comment la France se bat contre Google Maps"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2y...
"Plan Carte - L'IGN épisode 1 - Comment la France se bat contre Google Maps"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2y...
"We here love free software, but we often don't examine why. We don't often say, what is about free software? What problems does it solve? Why do we prefer this over other ways of developing, distributing software?"
"You need to point out that the only real path to digital sovereignty is through the total disintermediation of centralized control" Marc Prud'hommeaux #FOSDEM26 - read it all here, really worth it competitionwave.blogspot.com/2026/02/fear...
February 2, 2026 at 8:03 AM
"We here love free software, but we often don't examine why. We don't often say, what is about free software? What problems does it solve? Why do we prefer this over other ways of developing, distributing software?"
"en pratique ces sanctions touchent l'ensemble des actes de votre vie quotidienne parce que le numérique américain détient un quasi-monopole sur notre vie quotidienne"
"nous devons changer de paradigme en Europe et nous devons créer un véritable droit de la souveraineté européenne" magnifique discours prononcé par Nicolas Guillou, juge à la Cour pénale internationale competitionwave.blogspot.com/2026/02/nous...
February 2, 2026 at 7:56 AM
"en pratique ces sanctions touchent l'ensemble des actes de votre vie quotidienne parce que le numérique américain détient un quasi-monopole sur notre vie quotidienne"
Who's keeping track of all Epstein/antitrust connections for research purposes?
February 2, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Who's keeping track of all Epstein/antitrust connections for research purposes?
"nous devons changer de paradigme en Europe et nous devons créer un véritable droit de la souveraineté européenne" magnifique discours prononcé par Nicolas Guillou, juge à la Cour pénale internationale competitionwave.blogspot.com/2026/02/nous...
February 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"nous devons changer de paradigme en Europe et nous devons créer un véritable droit de la souveraineté européenne" magnifique discours prononcé par Nicolas Guillou, juge à la Cour pénale internationale competitionwave.blogspot.com/2026/02/nous...
"You need to point out that the only real path to digital sovereignty is through the total disintermediation of centralized control" Marc Prud'hommeaux #FOSDEM26 - read it all here, really worth it competitionwave.blogspot.com/2026/02/fear...
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 PM
"You need to point out that the only real path to digital sovereignty is through the total disintermediation of centralized control" Marc Prud'hommeaux #FOSDEM26 - read it all here, really worth it competitionwave.blogspot.com/2026/02/fear...